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
.bat
absolute cost of production
achkan
agency receipt
allotransplantation of tooth
ascorbyl palmitate
assistful
Bielenstein
bornaviruses
botnyl isovalerate
bristol glass
bronze smoke
bubblah
cambrian periods
carterly
center-parted
chi sequence
churn filling machine
code of safety
collomb
common bud
cronizing
cross-back width
crow ouer
dead level, dead-level
depth facies
determination of catecholamine in urine
diktyogenesis
diyers
Electronic warfare support measures.
encoders
enriched-uranium fission chamber
flare-up lamp
further education funding council for england (fefce)
goose-rumped
have (got) taped
have the big head
helianthus tuberosuss
hemerine
Hood County
icterus viridans
image name
infrared scanning imaging
isocyan
kite
Kouyou
likutas
lithic arkose
live center
Lychnis githago
machine interruption
malignant pleural mesothelioma
mamas
mannohexaose
Manzano, B.del
mechanical creation design
microprogramming level
moderately repetitive sequence
Muhamid
MVEG
negotiable bills
non-blocking
nonindulgence
organa gustus
otherwise known as
pantograph upthrust
pattern spacing
pennas
phytoparasitic disease
polyplastic cell
President Lincoln
procentriole organizer
quadrate pronator muscle musculus pronator quadratus
raluridine
reducing plane table equipment
rejoicingly
release of environmental substance
resin vehicles
resulted
road tread
rocket range
San Bartolomé
secant law
sheep's-bit
short input admittance
sodomitess
spermatocyte I
stimulations
Strach
transient passenger
transinhibition
trashery
traversing screw jack
trouble makers
Tφnning
ultrasound injury
unchartably
Varallo
water ga(u)ge steam pipe
working column
worldism
worryin