【正文】 dogs for peti ti ons, why are you vi si ti ng Iqal uit?” Beth answered, “ I?m wri ting a story for m y newspaper about Iqal ui t – we?d li ke to adverti se i t as a hol i day pl ace, but I thi nk i t?s too col d. ” The m an l aughed. “My nam e i s Si mon and I am Inui t, ” he sai d. “I thi nk i t?s too far north here for hol i days but m ore and m ore touri sts are i ng. They l i ke ice fi shi ng and photographi ng pol ar bears. I star as far away from pol ar bears as possi bl e. I li ke m y warm offi ce and my warm house. ” “I?m busi ness m an. My grandfather woul d l ive i n i ce houses when he hunted i n wi nter, but not so m any peopl e do that now. the ol d m en used to m ake one i n a few hours. They used to l ive i n ski n tents i n summ er – the tents were easy to m ove so the peopl e could fol l ow the ani m al s. ” A few mi nutes l ater they arri ved i n Iqal uit, a town wi th a popul ati on of 6000, on Si m on?s snowm obi l e. It was two o?cl ock i n the afternoon, but i t was al ready dark, and al the houses shone wi th bri ght l i ghts. Beth sai d, “ Why i s i t so dark? It?s the mi ddl e of the day!” Si mon repli ed, “It?s dark i n the day because we are so far north. You shoul d e in June. The sun shi nes al ni ght in the north then. That39。and saw farm s that covered thousands of acres. Afrer di nner, they were back in an urban area, the busy port ci ty of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they l earned, Canada has m ore fresh water than any other country i n the worl d. In fact, i t has onethi rd of the worl d?s total fresh water, and m uch of i t is i n the Great Lakes. That ni ght as they sl ept, the trai n rushed across the top of Lake Superi or, through the great forests and southward towads Toronto. “The True North” from Toronto to Montreal The next m orni ng the bushes and m apl e tres outsi de thei r wi ndow were red, gold and orange, and there was frost on the ground, confi rmi ng that fal had ari ved in Canada. Around noon they arri ved i n Toronto, the bi ggest and m ost weal thy ci ty i n Canada. They were not l eavi ng for M ontreal unti l l ater, so they went on a tour of the ci ty. They went up the tal CN Tower and l ooked across the l ake. In the distance, they coul d see the Mi sty cloud that rose from the great Ni agara Fal l s, whi ch i s on the south si de of the l ake. The water fl ows i nto the N iagara Ri ver and over the fal ls on its way to the sea. They saw the covered stadi um, hom e of several fam ous basketbal l team s. As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Dai yu sai d, “Lin Fang, one of m y m other?s ol d school mates, l i ves here. I shoul d phone her from a tel ephone both.” They m et Li n Fei around dusk i n downtown Chi natown, one of the three i n Toronto. O ver di nner at a restaurant cal ed The Pi nk Pearl , the cousi ns chatted with Li n Fei, who had m oved to Canada m any years earli er. “W e can get good Cantonese food here, ” Li n Feitol d them , “ because m ost of the Chi nese peopl e here e from South China, especi al l y H ong Kong. It?s too bad you can?t go as far as Ottawa, Canada?s capi tal . It?s approxim atel y four hundred kil ometers northeast of Toronto, so i t woul d take too l ong. ” The train l eft l ate that ni ght and arri ved i n Montreal at dawn the next m orni ng. At the stati on, people everywhere were speaking French. There were si ghs and ads i n French, but som e of them had Engl i sh words in sm al l er l etters. “We don39。t l eave unti l thi s evening,” sai d Li u Qi an. “Let?s go downtown. Ol d Montreal i s cl ose to the water. ” They spent the afternoon i n l ovel y shops and vi si ti ng arti sts i n thei r workpl aces besi de the water. As they sat in a Buffet restaurant l ooki ng over the broad St Lawrence Ri ver, a young m an sat down wi th them . “H el o, m y nam e i s H enri . I?m a student at the uni versi ty nearby, ” he sai d, ” and I was wonderi ng where you are from .” The gi rl s tol d hi m they were on a trp across Canada and that they had onl y on day i n Montreal . “That39。s why i t?s cal ed ?The Land of the Mi dni ght Sun?. ” There were peopl e on the streets and snowm obil es everywhere. There were even a few dog team s. 必修四 Unit 1 A STUDEN T O F AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gom be National park in east Africa. Fol owing Jane?s way of studying chim ps,our group are al goi ng to vi si t them i n the forest. Jane has studi ed these fam il ies of chi mps for m any years and hel ped people understand how m uch they behave l i ke hum ans. Watchi ng a fami l yof chi mps waki ng up i s our first acti vi ty of the day. This m eans goi ng back to the pl ace where we l eft the fami ly sl eepi ng i n a tree the ni ght before. Everybody si ts and waits i n the shade of the trees whi l e the fam il y begi ns to wake up and m ove off. Then we fol low as they wonder i nto the forest. Most of the ti m e, chi mps ei ther feed or cl ean each other as a way of showi ng love i n their fami l y. Jane worns us that our grou is goi ng tobe very tired and di rty by the afternoon and she i s ri ght. H owever,the eveni ng m akes it al l worthwhi l e. We watch the m other chim pand her babies pl ay i n the tree. Then we see them go to sl eep together i n their nest for the ni ght. We real i ze that the bond between m em bers of a chim p fam il y i s as strong as i n a hum an fami ly. N obody before Jane ful l y understood chim p behavi our. She spent years observi ng and recordi ng thei r dai ly acti vi ti es. Si nce her chil dhood she had wanted to work wi th anim al s i n thei r own environm ent. H owever,thi s was not easy. When she fi rst arrived i n Gom be in 1960, it was unusual for a wom an to li ve i n a nly after her m other cam e to hel pher for the fi rst few m onths was she al l owed to begi n her er work changed the way peopl e think of chi m