(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。新研究表明，儿童做作业没有好处，老师留作业只是出于父母意愿。来自悉尼大学的理查德·沃克尔教授认为，小学生每周需要做数小时的家庭作业，即使有效果的话，对提高分数来说也是微乎其微。他认为做作业对于中学生来说效果也是一样。他觉得：“除了高中生以外，其他学生不应该做家庭作业。”沃克尔教授称：“如果你愿意让孩子成为学习的主人，那么对于所有年龄段的学生而言，做少量家庭作业是完全没有问题的。”
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。“法国家长协会”的珍-雅克·哈赞称：“如果学生在学校的表现不佳，那么我想他在家里也一样不会成功。”他还表示称，学校把教育孩子的责任扔给了家长，这引起了家庭摩擦。他认为：“我们要求父母做课上的工作。”一名教育发言人同意此观点，称：“不是所有家庭都有时间，有能力来帮助孩子学习。”尽管“禁业”令已经实施了50年之久，但法国小学依然给学生分派任务。
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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。
