【正文】 an li ve i n the forest as m en can. She inspires those who want to cheer the achi evem ents of wom en. WH Y NOT CARRY ON H ER WORK? I enjyed Engl i sh , bi ol ogy,and chemi stry at schol, 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 came across an article about a doctor caled Lin Qiaozhi, a specalist in women?s diseases. She lived from 1901 to 1983 . It seem ed that she had been very busy i n her chosen career , travli ng abored to study as wel as wri ti ng books and arti cl es. O ne of them caught m y eye. It was a sm al bok expl ai ni ng how to keepi ng babi es cl ean, heal thy and free from si ckness. Why di d she wri te that?Who were the wom en that Lin Qi aozhi thought needed thi s advi ce?I l ooked careful y at the text and reali ze that i t was i ntended for wom en i n the countrysi de. Perhaps i f they had an em ergency they coul d not reach a doctor. Suddenl y i t hi t m e how diffi cul t i t was for a wom an to get m edi cal traini ng ata that tim e. That was a generation when girls? education was always placred decond to boys?. Was she so much cleverer than anyone else?Further readi ng m ade m e real i ze that i t was hard work and determi nati on as wel l as her gentl e nature that got her i nto m edi cal schol. What m ade her succeed l ater on was the ki ndness 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 family who could not pay her. By now I coul d not wai t to fi nd out m ore about her . I di scovered that Lin Qi aozhi had devoted her whol e li fe to herpati ens and had chosen not to have a fami l y of her own. Instead she m ade sure that about 50, 000 babi es were safel y deli vered. By thi s ti m e I was very excited. Why not study at m edi cal col l ege l i ke Li n Qi aozhi and carry on her good work?It was stil not to l ate for m e 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 if her li fe woul d be fortabl e and peaceful .H owever, El i zabeth was not content wi th her easy li fe and her growi ng fam il y. She saw many poor peopl e l i vi ng near her and she wanted to hel p them. O ne day she was asked to vi sit a pri son . At fi rst the pri son offi cers di d not want to let her vi si t the wom en prisoners because they feared the pri soners woul d attack her, but Eli 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 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 El izabeth di d was to provi de food, cl ean cl othes and straw for beds. Later she began a pri son school for the chil 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 l ittle m oney for them sel ves and gai n som e sel er li ndneshel ped her gai n the fri endshi pof pri soners and they began to try to im prove thei r condi ti ons for themsel ves. Later El izabeth was asked to go to the l eaders of Bri tai n to di scus how to im prove the condi tions for pri soners。 O f course she di d not do al the work on her ther Quaker wom en helped 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 quarel ed wi th her. They sai d that she shoul d spend m ore tim e wi th her fam il ther peopl e sai d she enjoyed bei ng fam ous toom uch. H owever, her husband, Joseph,supported and encouraged her, so she conti nued worki ng to hel p im prove the l i ves of poor pri soners til l she er i deas di d not di sappear after her death and her work was rem em bered i n 1947 when the Quakers were gi ven the N obl e Peace Prize. Uni t 2 A pi oneer for al l peopl e Al though he i s one of Chi na?s m ost fam ous sci enti sts, Yuan Longpi ng consi ders hi m sel f a farm er, for he works the l and to do hi s research. Indeed, hi s sunburnt face and arm s and hi s slim , strong body are just l i ke those of m il li ons of Chi nese farm ers, for whom he has struggl ed for the past fi ce decades. Dr Yuan Longpi ng grows what i s cal l ed super hybri d rice. In 1974, he becam e the first agri cultural pi oneer in the worl d to grow Ri ck that has a hi gh output. This speci al strai n of Ri ck m akes i t possi bl e to produce onethi rd m ore of the crop i n the sam e fi el ds. N ow m ore than 60% of the ri ce produced i n Chi na each year i s from thi s hybri d strain. Born i nto a poor farm er?s fam il y i n 1930, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agri cul tural Col ege i n 1953. Si nce then, fi ndi ng ways to grow m ore ri ce has been hi s li fe goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for i ncresi ng the ri ce output. At that tim e, hunger was a di sturbi ng probl em i n m any parts of the countrysi de. Dr Yuan searched for a way to i ncrease ri ce harvests wi thout expandi ng the area of the fi el ds. In 1950, Chinese farm ers coul d produce onl y fi fty mi l i on tons of ri ce. In a recent harvest, however, nearl y two hundred m il i on tons of ri ce was produced. These i ncreased harvests m ean that 22% of thwart worl d?s peopl e are fed from just 7% of the farm l and i n Chi na. Dr Yuan i s now ci rcul ati ng hi s knowl edge i n India, Vi etnam and many other l es 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 l arge as before. Dr Yuan i s qui te sati sfi ed wi th his l i fe. H owever, he doesn39。That39。s why it?s cal l ed ?Th