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。
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ackee
ad-banner
agricultural dynamics
Allegheny chinkapin
Amalric I
antegrade block
ashkelon
bad request
box someone's ears
chinese sort
code excited linear prediction (celp) vocoder
coil tube with ribs
COMEXO
contraoriented
cooling range
crossbar switch
crystal scintillator
dispells
divergence point
DMVPN
double torsion machine
driving friction ring
Egegik
endless rolling
enlumining
enthalpy-humidity chart
extra linguistic
fattoush
for four hands
gianluca
Golmud
heated board
Helvick Hd.
hohman
Hos.
imotryl
indiscernable
inosculates
isogonic chart
iterate
Jeans theorem
Khorezmian
laser facility storage
lianoid form
life scientists
limited access
Lombardo, Guy Albert
long base drag
looselyspread
made little account of
meaking
microsoft baseline security analyzer
middle burner
multigeneration moment estimator method
muscle in on
N-methyl-tryptophane
N_Port
new dram architecture
newishness
non-free-flowing powder
nonlinear standard error of estimate
Oberlausitz
Olsokbreen
outdents
overall diffusivity
oxazidione
paltry
paverin
peggers
pitch aze
podcast
polygamo-monoecious
praga
pre-orders
principal language
R. D. A.
red flag
reseonine
sealing sleeve handling pallet
semi solid
Seriphidium mongolorum
sexadentate chelate
single-wave oscillator
sobers up
soft felt hat
software portability methodology
Solustibosan
special purpose storage
static oscillograph
straw wall picture
Taxus yunnanensis
thionucleotides
Tilomonte
tittiest
to cancel a block
toluenesulfonamide
trail.label
Tsing Yi
tv receiving system
unwallowable
Verde, Loma
whitelockes