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
a blanket of smoke
ABAI
abequosyltransferase
acanthocephalous
accelerated freeze-drying
actualizer
acyl iodide
automatic material handling system (amhs)
automation and control
background ionization voltage
biballism
bronze race
capitalist farming
chronology condition
clinostatasm
commercery
conjugacies
cyles
dark diffuse nebula
davar panah
Days' sales outstanding
diffusely reflecting surface
draw-in bolt
effective heat transfer surface
emphasising
encumbered with
engagement of the cutting edge
Engler viscometer of petroleum products
Erethisma
extended error correction
extinction of claim
felt-neoprene seal
folk-tradition
gekko hokouensis
genus Ischigualastia
grashof rule
gui application interoperability architecture
gummi tragacanthae
haemophiles
haplic acrisols
hard plug
haz-mat
head telephone
heirs apparent
Herzberg's two-factor theory
hole straightening
Holmes, Arthur
hypothesis
incisurae sphenopalatina
indurance
internal flow field visualization using optical fiber
interorganizational systems
ladlefor smelting
laparohysterosalpingo-oophorectomy
law of international transfer of technology
lenbachhaus
lipodermatosclerosis
magnetic matrix switch
measuring addendum
mensurate
merge package
metaconid
mother map
Nel'koba
non-cooperative Walras equilibration
not-at-risk
number of actual teeth
operatic stars
optical superposition
Otary
partargo
personal service of the writ
philophylla fossata
pinion type cutter
planaperturate
pneumases
Project Mercury
reconquerable
Redi, Francesco
reflectivity method
repulsive interaction
rond de jambe en l'air
run-and-hit
safety supervision
sambuk
seed vigor
seismoscope data
selection command
sensitve drilling machine
shonfields
silique
singularization
sintered plastics
smolianinovite
stage struck
start code
thermopreferendum
unbottom
uveolabyrinthitis
vernier nozzle
whipping of crank shaft
zero synchronization