想不到有一天我会这么用贴吧。。。。实属无奈

homework1: Chinese New Year 听写 DH的听写并翻译homework2：prayer的听写 VOA的听写homework3:BBC的要求听写大意Mary的那个要求听写全文

homework1答案
Item 1:
China's story of modernization has
transformed millions of lives in countless different ways. But there is still
one moment in every year that brings the entire nation together. 800 million
people are on the move crisscrossing the nation in what is the biggest human
migration on Earth. They are all heading home to see friends and family and to
celebrate the biggest festival in the Chinese calendar. This is Chinese New
Year.
Migrant worker Songfang has been cleaning windows in Shanghai for an entire year. Now he's going
back to his family with the profits of his labors tucked in his pocket. When he
left home his only daughter was just a young baby. He's got no idea what she'll
make of him.
I most want to see my kid, she's only 3 and she hasn't seen me for a year. She
will be very shy. I can't wait to see how much she's grown.
All across the country the Chinese are preparing for the holiday season with
rituals and customs centuries old. Banners are posted on every doorway,
inviting in good luck and prosperity. Parades wind their ways through towns,
large and small. And in the great port
of Hong Kong,
arrangements are in full swing for the biggest celebration of them all. A vast
fireworks display, the largest ever in the city. 2.5 tons of explosives on 4
barges ranged across the harbor.
After a 6-hour train journey, Songfang arrives in his hometown of Taizhou. He's
carrying gifts for every member of the household. Songfang has waited a long
time to be reunited with his daughter. But he doesn't get the welcome he was
hoping for.
I was away for so long that my daughter didn't recognize me. I was a stranger
to her. When I got inside the house she didn't understand who I was. I felt...
At the same moment in the great city of Hong Kong, the entire population is heading
to the waterfront as the clock ticks down towards the biggest fireworks display
ever seen in the city.
In Taizhou, Song Fang has lit the lanterns hanging over the door. He and his
father are setting out their own somewhat smaller display. For fireworks are
another great tradition of the Chinese New Year, another way to frighten off
evil spirits and bring a luck for the coming year.
As the New Year turns, it seems that all China has been swept up in a storm
of change: a tempest of shifting values, of growing wealth, of new
opportunities, a tempest that is reshaping the lives of everyone of its 1.3
billion citizens.
Some carry the burden of a nation's hope on the slightest shoulders. While
others have already triumphed, building empires of their own. Some are fighting
to build a new nation, secure and safe, as others struggle to preserve a
5000-year history. For some, there is now prosperity never seen before. While
for others, wealth and success are still lying in the future. Whether or not,
everyone of China's
citizens can ever realize their dreams. Perhaps the difference in the new China is that
everyone can now have one.
Item 2
It's an odd
thing to look back on the world
To watch those I
left behind
Each of her own way
so brave, so determined and so very desperate
Desperate to venture
out, but afraid of what she'll miss when she goes
Desperate to get
everything she wants, even when she’s not exactly sure of what that is
Desperate for life
to be perfect again, although she realized it never really was
Desperate for a
better future, if she can find a way to escape her past
I not only watched,
I cheered them on, these amazing women.
I hope so much that
they'll find what they are looking for
But I know not all
of them will
Sadly, that's just
not the way life works
Not everyone gets a
happy ending
回过头来注视这个世界，一切是那么的奇怪。看看我身后的这些女人，她们都那么勇敢、那么果断，也充满了渴望。有人充满出去冒险的渴望，但是她却害怕出去以后会错过什么。有人心中充满想得到一切的渴望，但是她却不确定她到底要什么。有人心中充满继续过完美生活的渴望，虽然她了解自己的生活从来就不完美。有人心中充满追求美好未来的渴望，但是她必须先想办法逃避痛苦的过去。我不只是看着她们，我也为这些神奇的女人加油。我希望她们能找到她们所追求的东西。但是我知道她们不一定都能找到。很不幸，这就是残酷的现实。不是每个人都会有快乐结局。

ey to Homework 3
The Modern Family
Father leaves for work in the morning after breakfast.
The two children take the bus to school, and mother stays home cooking and cleaning until father and the kids return home in the evening. This is the traditional picture of a happy family living in Britain. But is it true today?
The answer is no! The past 20 years have seen enormous changes in the lives and structure of families in Britain.
The biggest change has been caused by divorce. As many as 2 out of 3 marriages now end in divorce, leading to a situation where many children live with one parent and only see the other at weekends or holidays.
There has also been a huge rise in the number of women with children who work. The large rise in divorces has meant many women need to work to support themselves and their children. Even where there is no divorce, many families need both parents to work in order to survive. This has caused an increase in childcare facilities, though it is very expensive and can be difficult to find in many areas.
In addition, women are no longer happy to stay at home raising children, and many have careers earning as much or even more than men, the traditional breadwinner.
There has also been a sharp increase in the number of single mothers, particularly among teenagers. Some people have blamed this increase for the rise in crime. They feel the lack of a male role model has damaged these children in society.
However, these changes have not had a totally negative effect. For women, it is now much easier to have a career and good salary. Although it is difficult to be a working mother, it has become normal and is no longer seen as a bad thing for the children.
As for children themselves, some argue that modern children grow up more independent and mature than in the past. From an early age they have to go to childminders （代看孩子的人） or nurseries, and so are used to dealing with strangers and mixing with other children.
DH Companion
yes, life is a journey.
One is much better travelled with a companion by your side.
Of course, that companion can be just about anyone:
a neighbor on the other side of the street;
or the man on the other side of your bed.
A companion can be a mother with good intentions;
or a child who is up to no good.
Still, despite our best intentions, some of us will lose our companions on the way,
and then the journey becomes unbearable.
You see, human beings are designed for many things,
but loneliness isn’t one of them.

good morning, everyone. We may have mixed feelings here today. Today, we are here to cherish the memory of the soldiers dead in the great battle, the Gettysburg Campaign. Also, we are here to encourage all of you to continue fighting against with the injustice, illiberality and inhumanity. 87 years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so formed and so dedicated can long exist. We are met on the great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final-resting place for those who have gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or reduce. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus for so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have dead in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.