【導讀】stoocold.”Themanlaughed.“MynameisSimonandIamInuit,”hesaid.“Ithinkit?stoofarnorthhereforholidaysbutmoreandmoretouristsareing.Theylikeicefishingandphotographingpolarbears.Istarasfarawayfrompolarbearsasposible.Ilikemywarmofficeandmywarmhouse.”“I?mbusinessman.Mygrandfatherwouldliveinicehouseswhenhehuntedinwinter,butnotsomanypeopledothatnow.theoldmenusedtomakeoneinafewhours.Theyusedtoliveinskintentsinsummer–thetentswereeasytomovesothepeoplecouldfolowtheanimals.”AfewminuteslatertheyarivedinIqaluit,atownwithapopulationof6000,onSimon?

　　

【正文】 us that our grou i s goi ng tobe very ti red and dirty by the afternoon and she i s ri owever, the eveni ng makes i t al worthwhil e. We watch the m other chim pand her babi es play i n the tree. Then we see them go to sl ep together i n thei r nest for the ni ght. We reali ze that the bond between m em bers of a chi m p fami l y i s as strong as i n a hum an fam il y. N obody before Jane ful ly understood chi m p behavi our. She spent years observi ng and recordi ng thei r dail y activi ti es. Si nce her chi l dhood she had wanted to work wi th anim al s i n thei r own envi ronm ent. However, thi s was not easy. When she first arri ved i n Gom be in 1960, it was unusual for a wom an to li ve i n a nl y after her m other cam e to hel pher for the fi rst few months was she al owed to begi n her er work changed the way peopl e think of chi mps. For exam pl e,one i mportant thi ng she di scovered was that chim ps hunt and eat m eat. Until 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 al s. She has argued that anim al s shoul d be l eft i n the wil d and not used for entertai nm ent or adverti sem 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 l i fe but she says: “Once I stop,i t al es crowdi ng i n and I rem em ber the chim ps in l aboratori es. It’s teri bl e. It affacts m e when I watch the wi l d chim ps. I 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 achieved everything she wanted to do:working with animals in their own environment,gaining a doctor?s degree and showi ng that wom en can li ve i n the forest as men can. She i nspi res those who want to cheer the achi evements 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 until 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 came acros an articl e about a doctor cal ed 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 , travli ng abored to study as wel as wri ti ng boks and arti cl es. One of them caught m y eye. It was a sm al book expl ai ni ng 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 hi t m e how di ffi cult i t was for a woman to get m edi cal trai ning ata that tim e. That was a generation when girl s? education was al ways pl acred decond to boys?. Was she so much cl everer than anyone el se?Further readi ng made m e reali ze that it was hard work and determ i nati on as wel as her gentl e nature that got her into m edi cal school. What m ade her succeed l ater on was the ki ndness and considerati on she showed to al l her pati ens. There was story after story of how Li n Qiaozhi, tired after a day?s work,went l ate at night to del iver a baby for a pool famil y who coul d not pay her. By now I coul d not wait to fi nd out m ore about her . I discovered that Li n Qiaozhi had devoted her whole l i fe to herpati ens and had chosen not to have a famil y of her own. Instead she m ade sure that about 50, 000 babi es were safel y del i 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 l not too l ate for m e to im prove my studies,prepare for the university entrance examinations , and … ELIZABETH FRY When the Quaker Eli zabeth marri ed Joseph Fry,i t seem ed as if her l i fe woul d be fortabl e and peaceful. H owever, El i zabeth was not content wi th her easy l i fe and her growing fami l y. She saw m any poor peopl e li ving near her and she wanted to hel p them. O ne day she was asked to vi si t a pri son . At fi rst the prison officers 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 El i zabeth was not afrai d. She reali zed that the pri soners behave badl y because they were treated l i ke ani mal s. They had no beds, cl ean cl othes, food or heati ng. Any chil d born i n pri son had to stay there and had no chance of an educati on. Thi s m eant they woul d probably have to beg or steal when they grew up and then woul d return to pri son. So the first thi ng Eli zabeth di d was to provi de food,cl ean cl othes and straw for beds. Later she began a pri son school for the chi l dren and taught the wom en to sew, kni t and m ake goods to sel. In thi s way they abl e to m ake a li ttl e m oney for them sel ves and gain som e selfrespect. H er l i ndnesshel ped her gai n the fri endshi pof pri soners and they began to try to im prove thei r condi ti ons for them selves. Later Eli zabeth was asked to go to the l eaders of Bri tain to discuss how to i mprove the conditi ons for pri soners。 O f course she di d not do al l the work on her own. Other Quaker wom en hel ped her and went around the country rai si ng m oney for her wprk. Som e peopl e di d not li ke her i deas and quarrel led with her. They sai d that she shoul d spend m ore tim e wi th her fami ther peopl e sai d she enjoyed bei ng famous owever, her husband, Joseph, supported and encouraged her, so she conti nued worki ng to hel p im prove the li ve