时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:朗文3L看听学英语第四册


英语课

  Lesson 99 Homework

"Finished!" Sandy cried.

"Me too!" Sue 1 cried.

Gretel has often noticed that Sandy and Sue don't have very much homework. She raised the subject at dinner the other evening and Mr Clark tried to explain. "In some countries," he said, "children are made to do a lot of homework from the moment they begin school. They're often obliged 2 to learn their lessons by heart and they are tested each day by their teachers. The children learn from exactly the same books and follow a strict state programme. It' quite the opposite in England. Teachers rarely make very young children do any homework. They rarely get their pupils to learn lessons by heart. The teachers themselves are usually free to choose the books they will use. Some teachers don't use books at all! After the age of 11 or 12, of course, children are generally made to do some homework, but never very much, From the age of 14 onwards, they usually heve quite a lot, as they will be taking important examinations 3. But even then, the question of homework is largely 4 their own responsibility."

Gretel thought English children were very lucky, but Sandy and Sue didn't agree-which is hardly surprising!



1 sue
vt.控告,起诉;vi.请求,追求,起诉
  • If you don't pay me the money,I'll sue you.如果你不付给我钱,我就告你。
  • The war criminals sue for peace.战犯求和。
2 obliged
adj.感激,感谢v.迫使做( oblige的过去式和过去分词 );使负义务;满足请求;施惠
  • We were obliged, faute de mieux, to drink the local beverage. 因为没有更好的饮料,我们只好将就着喝当地的。
  • Parents are obliged by law to send their children to school. 法律规定父母必须送子女入学。
3 examinations
n.检查( examination的名词复数 );考试;考查;试题
  • He had been forced to incriminate himself in cross-examinations. 他在盘问中被迫受到牵连。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Examinations are hanging over her head—that's why she can't sleep at nights. 她大脑里想的都是考试,所以晚上无法入睡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 largely
adv.大部分,主要地
  • It is largely dependent on the weather.这多半取决于天气情况。
  • Their conclusions were largely founded on guesswork.他们的结论大部份基于猜测。
学英语单词
achromic point
acidophily
addecked
advitant
alpha-2
amended running down clause
Antirrhinum filipes
anycasting
arch of the throw
armado
asphalt furnace
bat(bass)
be through with one's star
beta-Mercaptopropionate
bovine offal
Brazil-nut oil
bryophyllum
burning-down period
Caruncula sublingualis
central pylon
centre of pressure position
centromere repulsion
cheese-boards
containersful
curvable
cyanotic heart disease
Debye crystallogram
density of electron
dump test
dwarf dandelion
erosion shield
execute local on-line test
externalized
feed-through placement
femto-farads
fibrous papule of nose
flyback checker
frontayle
gas partition process
gasoline poisoning
genus gymnocarpiums
geochemical environment
give reason
Hamilton's pseudophlegmon
Han dynasty
harvest fly
header checksum
ill-will
in book form
individual counseling
indivisibly
infant-formula
invention temperature
invertebrate paleontology
knife disk
kupferphosphoruranit
lateral ventricular injection
laurel-trees
literal node
lost contact searches
Lugus I.
mechanically-polished substrate
Meidougou
meliola euchrestae
menophra taiwana
mercurochromes
Mespilus
miankhan
monosymmetric aprosopic cephalothoracopagus
mounting arm
normalization constant
opium trafficker
output equipment
overhalled
palaverer
parott
pathfinding apparatus
Pithecolobium
pool-cathode mercury arc rectifier
primary moisture separator
propionylholothin
quarterboys
queue packet
re-elected
sentinel crab
shekhinah
shenanigans
shutdown period
Sia La
spider dngioma
straight-toothed gear
street garden
striocortioal syndrome
symbol substitution
Sūq al Khāmis
time study allowances
top side sounding
tramlines
Tālāb, Rūd-e(Tāhlāb R.)
uancs
wash in
X-linked hypophosphatemia