Read carefully the following excerpt on homework banning arguments in the UK, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then comment on whether homework should be banned for the sake of both the children and their parents. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Calls for Homework to Be Scrapped A teachers' group is calling for kids to do no homework because of fears it makes them stressed and unhappy. Under the plans homework for primary school kids could be completely scrapped, and the amount teenagers have to do would be absolutely canceled. But don't think you've been let off the hook just yet, as the idea is so far only being talked about. There are also calls for a group to be set up to look at other reasons why kids might be unhappy at school. Mary Bousted from the union said: "I think homework is a waste of time." Homework especially puts lots of stress on poorer children, who might not have as many books and computers at home, she added. The government says teachers don't have to give homework, but they are encouraged to set it. A. spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said homework helped children and young people develop their learning skills.
(l)Science is committed to the universal. A sign of this is that the more successful a science becomes, the broader the agreement about its basic concepts. There is not a separate Chinese or American or Soviet thermodynamics, for example; there is simply thermodynamics. For several decades of the twentieth century there was a Western and a Soviet genetics, the latter associated with Lysenko's theory that environmental stress can produce genetic mutations. Today Lysenko's theory is discredited, and there is now only one genetics. (2)As the corollary of science, technology also exhibits the universalizing tendency. This is why the spread of technology makes the world look ever more homogeneous. Architectural styles, dress styles, musical styles—even eating styles—tend increasingly to be world styles. The world looks more homogeneous because it is more homogeneous. Children who grow up in this world therefore experience it as a sameness rather than a diversity, and because their identities are shaped by this sameness, their sense of differences among cultures and individuals diminishes. As buildings become more alike, the people who inhabit the buildings become more alike. The result is described precisely in a phrase that is already familiar: the disappearance of history. (3)The automobile illustrates the point with great clarity. A technological innovation like streamlining or all-welded body construction may be rejected initially, but if it is important to the efficiency or economics of automobiles, it will reappear in different ways until it is not only accepted but universally regarded as an asset. Today's automobile is no longer unique to a given company or even to a given national culture, its basic features are found, with variations, in automobiles in general, no matter who makes them. (4)As in architecture, so in automating. In a given cost range, the same technology tends to produce the same solutions. The visual evidence for this is as obvious for cars as for buildings. Today, if you choose models in the same price range, you will be hard put at 500 paces to tell one make from another. In other words, the specifically American traits that lingered in American automobiles in the 1960s—traits that linked American cars to American history—are disappearing. Even the Volkswagen Beetle has disappeared and has taken with it the visible evidence of the history of streamlining that extends from D'Arcy Thompson to Carl Breer to Ferdinand Porsche. (5)If man creates machines, machines in turn shape their creators. As the automobile is universalized, it universalizes those who use it. Like the World Car he drives, modem man is becoming universal. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture, he moves from one climate-controlled shopping mall to another, one airport to the next, from one Holiday Inn to its successor three hundred miles down the road; but somehow his location never changes. He is cosmopolitan. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the word. The benefit is that he begins to suspect home on the traditional sense is another name for limitations, and that home in the modern sense is everywhere and always surrounded by neighbors.
Both approaches agree on what is depicted in the poem, but not on how it should be ______.
Kelsey likes eating very much, but he isn't very ______ about the food he eats.
The new folk song ______ on really quickly.
Which of the following sentences expresses "probability"?
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Which of the following italicized parts is a subject clause(主语从句)?
Nowadays, food safety problems like melamine in baby formula milk powder have caused more and more concern all over the country. Though the Food Safety Law is improved, food safety problems still happen one after another. What do you think about it? Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: On Food Safety Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Evidence came up ______ animals will behave abnormally if there is going to be an earthquake.
There were 500 ______ at the international academic conference this summer.
The rising crime rate is ______ major concern of______ society.
______ dull he may be, he is certainly a very successful top executive.[2006]
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It's high time we______cutting down the rainforests.
This rule may have preserved the shark from being eaten as well as other animals _______.
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You can never imagine what great trouble I have had ______ the customer to withdraw a claim.
A. exception B. ultimately C. embarrass D. concepts E. tolerance F. oppress G. target H. adaptable I. stressed J. temporarily K. comfortable L. procedures M. approaches N. enjoyable O. where Here are the three most common mistakes language learners make—and how to correct them. Rigid thinking linguists have found that students with a low【C1】______ of ambiguity tend to struggle with language learning. Language learning involves a lot of uncertainty—students will encounter new vocabulary daily, and for each grammar rule there will be a dialectic【C2】______ or irregular verb. Until native-like fluency is achieved, there will always be some level of ambiguity. The type of learner who sees a new word and reaches for the dictionary instead of guessing the meaning from the context may feel【C3】______ and disoriented in an immersion class. They might【C4】______ quit their language studies out of sheer frustration. It's a difficult mindset to break, but small exercises can help. Find a song or text in the【C5】______ language and practice figuring out the gist, even if a few words are unknown. A single method Some learners are most【C6】______ with the listen-and-repeat drills of a language lab or podcast. Some need a grammar textbook to make sense of a foreign tongue. Each of these【C7】______ is fine, but it's a mistake to rely on only one. Language learners who use multiple methods get to practise different skills and see【C8】______ explained in different ways. What's more, the variety can keep them from getting stuck in a learning rut. Fear In Eastern cultures【C9】______ saving face is a strong social value, EFL teachers often complain that students, despite years of studying English, simply will not speak it. They're too afraid of making grammatical mistakes or mispronouncing words in a way that would【C10】______ them.
Since the scene was arguably the emotional ______ of the film, the casting crew wanted an experienced actor for the role.