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
-rix
Abdel-Malik
achieve an end
Alverca
angiotonic
art media
Athleague
atmospheric passive sounding
banjitarist
be shy of
binary encounter approximation
catch per unit of effort
channel output
cholecystokinin-pancreozymin
classification of wastes
Cochiti Indian Reservation
convects
corrosion target
courtyard theatre
dermatitis caused by seaweed
dispersing optics
drain on cash
East Cambridgeshire
ENDING CREDITS
Era, Fiume
face-centered cubic crystal structure
fibre-optic light-transmission system
forshays
Freedom Party
fuel supply service
Gaertner vein phenomenon
gas weighing balloon
general performance number
gentin
grease bucket pump
gunite covering
hairy golden asters
hand scroll
hard drawn copper
hatch bearing
helicopters
high teas
horrors of war
hot metal ladle
jowlopped
kikois
kinematic property
kingdoms of tonga
laborites
lanais
law of family
leatharts
lethal firearms
lightfield camera
logical file environment
mahonia
mashonalands
McFarlane Harb.
mechanical braking
memory cell structure
minimum lending rate
mixohaline
mooring trial test
myonichikan
Nitropent
no-par-value stocks
Novozakharkino
ontogony
orbital degeneracy
Pabna
part requirement card
peach red
personal memory
plumb bond
position pin
professional staff preparation
qalandiya
quynn
read access time
reclamation of waste water
red cell enzyme type
regaliz de Cuba
rockoes
ROM brain
rotary screen feed cleaner
school of journalism
shaft passage
social causes
sociospatial
Somogy Megye
squirt hole
sweep(ing) voltage
synthetic sodium butadiene rubber
thallium methide
tube closing
tunnel hydraulics
tyrosinase
uk ho
unpunctuating
vesicularia montagnei
wet barrel tumbling
Windygates