【正文】 s too bad, ” he said. “Montreal i s a ci ty wi th wonderful restaurants and clubs. Most of us speak both Engl ish and French, but the ci ty has French culture and traditions. We love good coffee, good bread and good musi c.” That ni ght as the transfer was speedi ng along the St Lawrence River toward the Gul f of St Lawrence and down to the di stant east coast, the cousins dreamed of French restaurants and red maple leaves. Iqaluit – the frozen town The reporter, Beth Al en, arrived in a northern m uni ty cal ed Iqaluit in N unavut. Nunavut was created in 1999 as a special area for Inui t people. Its name means “O ur Land” in thei r language. It is i n the farthest northeastern area of Canada, north or the Arctic Ci rcle, and i s very cold – the average wi ter temperature i n Nunavut is 35 degrees below zero. Beth sai d, “ I knew i t woul d be could in January, but not this col d! Maybe there i s a dog sl ed that can take me into town.” The quiet m an who had been on the pl ane with her sai d, “I?l l take you i nto town, but I don?t hace a dog sled. Most people only use the dogs for peti tions, why are you visi ti ng Iqalui t?” Beth answered, “ I?m writi ng a story for my newspaper about Iqaluit – we?d li ke to adverti se i t as a hol iday pl ace, but I thi nk i t?s too cold. ” The man laughed. “My name is Si mon and I am Inuit, ” he said. “I think it?s too far north here for hol idays but m ore and more tourists are i ng. They li ke ice fi shing and photographi ng polar bears. I star as far away from pol ar bears as possi ble. I like my warm office 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 men used to make one in a few hours. They used to li ve i n skin tents i n summer – the tents were easy to move so the peopl e could fol low the animal s. ” A few mi nutes later they arri ved i n Iqaluit, a town with a popul ati on of 6000, on Sim on?s snowm obil e. It was two o?cl ock in the afternoon, but it was already dark, and al l the houses shone with bri ght li ghts. Beth sai d, “ Why is i t so dark? It?s the mi ddle of the day!” Si mon repli ed, “It?s dark in 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。t l eave until thi s eveni ng,” sai d Li u Qi an. “L et?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 i n 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 versity nearby,” he sai d,” and I was wonderi ng where you are from . ” The gi rl s tol d him they were on a trp acros Canada and that they had only 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 teams. 必修四 Unit 1 A STUDEN T O F AFRICAN WILDLIFE It i s 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gom be National park in east Africa. Fol l owing Jane?s way of studyi ng chim ps, our group are al goi ng to vi sit them i n the forest. Jane has studi ed these fam il i es of chim ps for m any years and hel ped peopl e understand how m uch they behave l ike hum ans. Watchi ng a fami lyof chim ps waki ng up i s our fi rst acti vity of the day. Thi s m eans goi ng back to the pl ace where we l eft the fami l y sl eeping i n a tre the ni ght before. Everybody si ts and wai ts in the shade of the trees whil e the fami l y begi ns to wake up and m ove of. Then we fol ow as they wonder i nto the forest. Most of the ti m e, chi m ps ei ther feed or cl ean each other as a way of showi ng l ove in thei r fam il y. Jane worns us that our grou i s goi ng tobe very ti red and di rty by the afternon and she is ri ght. However, the evening m akes it al l worthwhi l e. We watch the m other chim pand her babi es pl ay i n the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together i n thei r nest for the ni ght. We real ize that the bond between m em 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 l y understood chim p behavi our. She spent years observi ng and recordi ng thei r dai l y acti vi ti es. Si nce her chi l 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 ari ved in Gom be i n 1960,i t 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 m onths was she al lowed to begi n her er work changed the way peopl e thi nk of chim ps. For exampl 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 frui t and nuts. She al so di scovered how chi mps m uni cate wi th each other, and her study of thei r body l anguage hel ped her work out their 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 als shoul d be l eft i n the wi l d and not used for entertai nm ent or adverti sem ents. She has hel ped to set up special places where the can live safel y. She i s l eadi ng a busy l ife but she says: “Once I stop,i t al l es crowdi ng i n and I rem em ber the chim ps in laboratories. It’s teri affacts me when I watch the wil d chi say to mysel f,’Aren’t they lucky?’And then I think about smal l chimps in 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 women can l ive in the forest as m en can. She i nspi res those who want to cheer the achi evem ents of women. WHY see