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
'Snails
a sensible change
acton (an)
address while in
adup
bartelstein
brethered
butt cable
co-defense
compound fold
conductors
contiguous chain
countling
crateload
Dalila.
DD-PCR
design level of service
drawable currencies
Ethiopianized
feabane mullet
federation for unified science education (fuse)
fetoscopes
forfend
fuel post-irradiation examination
garlic-crushers
Gazawa
Google Desktop
gratuito
home-health-care
household survey
infraframe frequency interleaving
interrupt, source
intimate apparels
Invalid directory
jerries
junior-school
kaleidoscope model
kiyabu
lactofarinaceous
laminated plastic
laser cutter
layer of discontinuity
localizationists
mangonization
manufacturing loss
maturation stage
mean-spiritedness
merchant iron
merthe
metatrophic intracavitary
microcapsula
modelisation
molecular excitation
monetary payoff
motility estimation
musclings
nylet
on berth
one swallow does not a summer make
optimum producting capacity
oswald spenglers
overarches
oversculpture
phosphosiderite
pinged
ponytails
PROTECT IP Act
puccinia polliniae-imberbis
radiometer manometer
ramsgill
range expansion
rebound elasticity
regular representation of compact group
Remadion
rigid truck
Routh's criterion
Saint Cyril
selsyn-type electrical motor
shanny
simplifiers
single point moorings
Sitka spruce
spectral stimulus
spotting soap
stocking knitter
Straight value
straight-side flank splines
subaqueous signalling
subdiaconates
tackley
Tape relay.
tegic
theoretical concentration
transient thermal selffocusing
uncloying
unicycle graph
unitary class
unpacked goods
Vango
washing machinery
wrought-iron pipe