(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
The notion of younger children doing homework is under attack. New research suggests that homework for younger children does not really provide any benefit and teachers only give it because parents want it. Professor Richard Walker of Sydney University said that elementary school children do hours of homework every week but it has minimal, if any, effect on their test grades or level. He said the situation was little better for junior high school kids. He suggested: “I don't think anyone except senior high school students should be doing a couple of hours of homework.” Dr Walker said: “A little bit of homework is probably OK at all ages, if part of the reason is to help kids become self-directed learners.”
The study from Sydney University comes days after calls by parents in France to boycott homework and read a book instead. Jean-Jacques Hazan of the French Parents Association said: “If the child hasn't succeeded in doing the exercise at school, I don't see how they're going to succeed at home.” He added that schools were pushing the responsibility of teaching onto parents, which causes family friction. “We're asking parents to do the work that should be done in lessons,” he said. A teaching spokeswoman agreed, saying: “Not all families have the time or the necessary knowledge to help their offspring.” French primary schools still give homework despite a five-decade-long ban on it.
中文翻译
儿童做作业备受指责
就在悉尼大学发布该研究的几天前,法国学生家长开始抵制家庭作业,并希望学生读书
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重点讲解
1.junior high school 初中
例句:He dropped out of junior high school.
他初中辍学了
。2.senior high school 高中
例句:The dropout rate in the District's senior high schools last year was 12.3 percent.
去年学区高中的缀学率是百分之十二点三
。3.succeeded in 在…方面成功
例句:Finally he succeeded in his experiment.
他终于试验成功
。4.if any 若有的话
例句:The object of these experiments was to find the connection, if any, between the two phenomena.
这些实验的目的就是探索这两种现象之间的联系,如果存在着任何联系的话
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