【導(dǎo)讀】ididnotknowtheansweruntiloneeveningwhenIsatdownattheputertodosomeresearchongreatwomenofChina.BychanceIcameacrossanarticleaboutadoctorcalledLinQiaozhi,aspecalistinwomen’sdiseases.Shelivedfrom1901to1983.Itseemedthatshehadbeenverybusyinherchosencareer,travlingaboredtostudyaswelaswritingboksandarticlneofthemcaughtmyeye.Itwasasmalbookexplaininghowtokeepingbabiesclean,healthyandfreefromsickness.Whydidshewritethat?

　　

【正文】 oul d produce onl y fi fty mi l i on tons of ri ce. In a recent harvest, however, nearl y two hundred mi l i on tons of ri ce was produced. These increased harvests mean that 22% of thwart worl d’s peopl e are fed from just 7% of the farml and i n Chi na. Dr Yuan i s now ci rcul ati ng hi s knowledge i n Indi a, Vi etnam and m any other l ess devel oped countri es to increase thei r ri ce harvests. Thanks to hi s research, farm ers are produci ng harvests twi ce as large as before. Dr Yuan i s qui te sati sfi ed with hi s li fe. H owever, he doesn39。t care about being fam ous. H e feel s i t gi ves him l ess fredom to do hi s research. H e woul d rather keep ti m e for his hobbi es. H e enjoys l i steni ng to vol in m usi c, pl ayi ng m ahjong, swim ming and readi ng. Spendi ng money on himself or leadi ng a fortabl e l ife al so means very l ittle to him. Indeed, he bel ieves that a person with to much m oney has more rather than fewer by the afternoon and she i s ri owever, the eveni ng m akes i t al worthwhil e. We watch the m other chim pand her babi es pl ay i n the tree. Then we see them go to sl eep together i n thei r nest for the ni ght. We real i ze that the bond between mem bers of a chim p fam il y i s as strong as i n a hum an fam il y. N obody before Jane ful y understood chi mp behavi our. She spent years observi ng and recordi ng thei r dai l y acti vi ti es. Si nce her chil dhood she had wanted to work wi th anim al s in thei r own environm ent. H owever,thi s was not easy. When she first arri ved i n Gom be i n 1960, it was unusual for a wom an to l i ve in a nl y after her m other cam e to hel pher for the fi rst few m onths was she al owed to begi n her er work changed the way peopl e thi nk of chim ps. For exam pl e, one im portant thi ng she di scovered was that chim ps hunt and eat m eat. Unti l then every thought chim ps onl y eat fruit and nuts. She also di scovered how chi m ps m uni cate wi th each other, and her study of thei r body l anguage hel ped her work out thei r soci al system . For forty years Jane Goodal has beenoutspoken about m aki ng the rest of the worl d understand and respect the li fe of these anim als. She has argued that ani mal s shoul d be l eft i n the wil d and not used for entertainm ent or advertisem ents. She has hel ped to set up speci al pl aces where the can li ve safel y. She i s l eadi ng a busy li fe but she says: “O nce I stop, i t al l es crowding i n and I rem em ber the chim ps i n l aboratori es. It’s terri bl e. It affacts m e when I watch the wil d chim say to m ysel f,’Aren’t they l ucky?’And then I thi nk about sm al l chim ps i n cages though they have done nothing you have seen that you can never fet…“ She has achi eved everything she wanted to do:working with animals in their own environment,gaining a doctor’s degree and showing that women can li ve i n the forest as m en can. She i nspi res those who want to cheer the achievem ents of wom en. WH Y NOT CARRY ON H ER WORK? I enjyed Engl ish , bi ol ogy, and chem i stry at school, but whi ch one shoul d I choose to study at uni versi ty ?i di d not know the answer unti l one eveni ng when I sat down at the puter to do som e research on great wom en of Chi na. By chance I cam e across an arti cle about a doctor called Lin Qiaozhi, a specalist in women’s diseases. She lived from 1901 to 1983 . It seemed that she had been very busy i n her chosen career ,travl i ng abored to study as wel as wri ti ng boks and arti cl ne of them caught m y eye. It was a sm al book expl ai ning how to keeping babi es cl ean, heal thy and free from si ckness. Why di d she wri te that?Who were the wom en that Li n Qi aozhi thought needed thi s advi ce?I l ooked careful y at the text and real i ze that i t was i ntended for women i n the countrysi de. Perhaps i f they had an em ergency they coul d not reach a doctor. Suddenl y it hit me how difficult it was for a woman to get medical training ata that time. That was a generation when girls’ education was always placred decond to boys’. Was she so much cl everer than anyone el se?Further readi ng m ade m e real i ze that it was hard work and determ i nati on as wel as her gentl e nature that got her i nto m edi cal school. What m ade her succeed l ater on was the kindness and consi derati on she showed to al l her pati ens. There was story after story of how Lin Qiaozhi, tired after a day’s work,went late at night to deliver a baby for a pool fami l y who coul d not pay her. By now I coul d not wai t to find out m ore about her . I di scovered that Li n Qi aozhi had devoted her whol e l i fe to herpati ens and had chosen not to have a fami ly of her own. Instead she m ade sure that about 50, 000 babi es were safel y deli vered. By thi s tim e I was very exci ted. Why not study at m edi cal col ege li ke Li n Qi aozhi and carry on her good work?It was stil not too late for me to improve my studies,prepare for the university entrance examinations , and … ELIZABETH FRY When the Quaker Eli zabeth m arri ed Joseph Fry,i t seem ed as i f her l i fe woul d be fortabl e and owever, Eli zabeth was not content wi th her easy l ife and her growi ng fam il y. She saw many poor people l i vi ng near her and she wanted to hel p them . O ne day she was asked to vi si t a prison . At fi rst the pri son offi cers di d not want to l et her vi si t the wom en pri soners because they feared the pri soners woul d attack her, but Eli zabeth was not afrai d. She real ized that the pri soners behave badl y because they were treated l ike anim als. They had no beds, cl ean cl othes, food or heati ng. Any chi l d born in pri son had to stay there and had no chance of an educati on. Thi s m eant they woul d probabl y have to beg or steal when they grew up and then woul d return to pri son. So the fi rst thi ng Eli zabeth di d was to provi de food, cl ean cl othes and straw for beds. Later she began