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
aa (alcoholics anonymous)
accounting company
affiliated school
aleshop
alissa
antiquus
Azov Sea of
bareham
brackish
brickings
broden
building materials
carasco
cathode emitter
cattley guavas
cheek of crankshaft
cofrades
confraternization
congenital fascial dystrophy
conjunction normal form
corella r.
cost/performance
cyclotrisiloxane
Davenport Hills
DC (data cell)
dense plasma
dishwashing liquids
drip gasoline
engine-type generator
equity-price
evadney
evolvible
exuviations
fall to sb.'s share
farming climatology
filler shashlik
finishing treatment
fixed load
floxuridines
front-raising
Gerbera raphanifolia
gibblegabble
greater than the sum of
hardys
have no say
incertance
inhibit/enable alarm
interlobular arteries
kindergarten education
Kongsvinger
krustpils (jekabpils)
kymographic
labour certificate
mark down something
mass casualty
measure of damage
mergendahl
microscopic agglutination test
mill manager
miniprep
monitor & control panel
multilayer hierarchical system
narrow beam condition
nationalist school
Neomys anomalus
nocadia
nonspurious
ophiomyxas
orthogonal tensor
overissuing
peep-show
percentage of absence
perpin'
platepass
positively charged ion
punkies
raconter
rattlepod
reclyne
relationshipless
requirements of forecasts for operation
riel
right hand side tool
rose mallows
Safata B.
sea-drift
shaam (ash sham)
Sheldon Springs
shuttle-type feed
solvent radiolysis
Spermatochnaceae
stannous sulfide
static position
stefanski
stenogamy
stuff
tariff of cotton
teaboys
torsion product
Toulousain
up-valley wind
Zeph.