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
AIEC
anokhin
assumed spheroid
auncel
aviation kerosine
bakshis
balanced systematic sampling
ballonnement
Baptiste
bat-horse
braneworld
by-gum
concretio
continuity principle
crenatula modiolaris
cryogenic meadow forest soil
daymares
decarburizing cycle
deroofing
dress case
electrical smoking
elsfords
Ethaperazin
Euschongastia lorius
fillet of sole
focal plane shutter
fuel core
glassified
hal-
hedge-berry
hunger strikes
hutz
ibuverine
institutional environment
intermediate resistance
intracellular iodophilia
jinkle
Lou Gehrig's disease
lute stern
main drain
marine fire-fighting system
mean aerodynamic center
merica
mesothermophilus
mixture chamber
mould cup
mountains perennially covered with snow
non-arrivals
non-ornamental
nonhumanoid
numerical instability
outriving
overflow ports
oxygen want
parallel study
personal operating space
photo-flash powder
photocapacitance
pitayine
polyoptimal
preaxial muscle
prince klemens wenzel nepomuk lothar von metterniches
pythium undulatum
ratchet tooth
re-authorization
rechanging
requisition of land
rerhia cotton
retrieval data
retzian- (la)
rho type doublet
Rhopaloblaste
rivet-hole
rose-colored pastor
sailor's champagne
sea hen
SGN
shake one's responsibility
shc
shumann
silver stars
sinapoyl
single-station analysis
source of voltage
spin reorientation
spun bonded fabric
stallages
stamey
Tegadifurum
tetartanopias
tip cleaner
tracks-to-tracks seek time
transadenylase
turgut
under glass
unreduced
v. coronaria ventriculi
vaporizing combustion chamber
witching hour, the
witness's oath
ylium ion