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
- headed
actinerythrin
all she wrote
antiaditis
antimony rod
arteriola et venula temporalis retin? inferior
axle swivel
azems
beam alignment assembly
before the times
blamed
breeze through
brushpile
Calfbird
chiccories
chill strip
Chunya
clique analysis
cloud height meter
connel (connel ferry)
contrabass trombone
cooccurs
Cronin, A(rchibald) J(oseph)
Derg, River
destineth
electrolytic winning
fiducial mark
fissidens microcladus
forfex
formation water salinity
forward focal point
fossure
frecklings
gattino
Gauss curve
gentille
green pea
hemiterpenes
hetaerae
heterofermentangium
Hormoestrol
idiographic discipline
in unity there is strength
ingoes
insiderism
Internet fax
jog on
kibria
kidney texture
kippering
lenta tonsillitis
less than a week
library footage
local edition
Married Put
measuring instrument with projective scale
meiler
multifaceted
multiple blade mixer
Net Sales Revenue
neurosecretory hormone
node administration
non-secretor
noodlelike
Orthodoxy Sunday
outcalls
para amino salicylic acid
parameter identifier
peritoneotony
petpide synthetase
premediating
protection action(s)
proximity warning instrument (pwi)
re-win
Rhaphiolepis
rod dryer
rudolf karl bultmanns
sandeel
scientific fantasy
screw with flat head
sea going vessel
sky diver
solenhofengraphic limestone
sooos
sour cabbage soup
Southeast Asia
spiracles
spontaneous mutant
sternogynial region
strooke
superparamagnetically
taecheon (poryeong)
templize
time cost estimates
toxicodermatitis
tuberculosis of intestine
turpis conditio
verse-form
Vibrio agarliquefaciens
vinyl esters
western stenanthium
zinc-plate process