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
ablazer
advanced digital optical control system
Ainscough
aluminum cartridge case
anemobarograph
Anupgarh
awareness-raising
baling charges
banglawash
bar with
barium fluozirconate
Bartragh I.
bench assembly
Blanice
blood poison
book reviewing
Branthwaite
break-bulk from
brittle pan
bulkhead-mounted
cantus firmus
capitonidaes
carousel storage system
carry out an invention
chemistry of carbohydrate
cockneyfying
corporatise
Crotalaria hainanensis
cup meter
cylindromatosis
deepthroating
diplex generator
dyscece
endometrial cancer
excitory input
firedoor handle
forging shop
frumentaceous
heap-full
hemless
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
identity disorder
iken
initil output
input/output section
jurgen
kayembe
kikladhess
laccadive is. (cannanore is.)
lea count-strength product(lcsp)
learjets
leg-irons
linac duty factor
linear waveguide accelerator
luminous flux density
mccathy
mechanonociception
meet sb's eye
modal expansion
morphin
muling
mystific
non-frangible wheel
noncomplying
Nārāndia
opercular
pickup hole
Predeal, Pasul
purchases
refractive cell
retrieval by on-line search
rhizoglyphus robini claparede
rush-ring
sag tension
Schilling rudder
scotinos
semiconductor tetrode
sharp's the word
smoothing parameter
soil yeast
Spirillum volutans
squamous epthelium
superman punches
surface mining
swamp white oak
sweet corn soup
Tawantinsuyu
theory of antibody diversity
thingo
tie chain
tight pick
tongue thrusting
touchboards
tremor coactus
two-stick stow net
unblended gasoline
vameure
vertebratas
vitreotomy
water flushed production period
weight index number
woomeras