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
2-chloro-N-isopropyl acetanilide
additional margin
advocate of the eternal law of value
amount of work given out
amres
antimonian
antimony triselenide
axial offset
back sight leaf
bar-graph display
Bariohitchcockite
bartols
be put down
behaviouralist
beish
Bentox
bitumogene
blood culture medium
broken shaft
cadmium cobaltinitrite
carbon laydown
cell budding
cissplain
congenital absence of rib
container throughput
control turns
copositive
cortical regions
Cryptolepis buchananii
deliquesence
dichroic mirror
discernibleness
draw a cover
Egloffstein
EIF/REC
escot
estimated liability for free service
Etak Navigator
external pseudohermaphrodism
family Monodontidae
fatigue strength reduction factor
ferrod
form genera
frame type filter
fuel scavenge
gingerrace
Glesch
have been in
hormogon(e)
hydroaeroplanes
Indian Empire
infection carrier
inverted papilloma
Juilliard School
local raw material
lose patience
make a prey of
malamocco
MAS memory
masing
mcerlean
multipresent
Nebalaxyl
nonexempt employee
nonseparated code
overlaid veneer
Panzeria
peress
point instrument
practisants
preucil
psychotropicsubstance
public footpath
pyrogallol red
pyroglucic
ramp mining
recharge your batteries
record cylinder
reduction gear box
redundantant
resonant vibration of shafting
Saraktash
schmidt-waldmann vaccine
served device
shop-fabricated component
shop-test
siphonostelic
speech-based alerting
stereo-mixer
surveyor's chain
tangipahoa r.
tapped variable inductor
Tappuah
teratesla
toll plazas
tort.
towfish
turns a blind eye
twinning law
virtual terminal approach
whiz kids
xi-type structure