【正文】 oth Engli sh and French, but the city has French cul ture and tradi ti ons. We l ove good coffee, good bread and good m usi c. ” That ni ght as the transfer was spedi ng along the St Lawrence River toward the Gul f of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cousi ns dream ed of French restaurants and red m apl e l eaves. Iqal ui t – the frozen town The reporter, Beth Al len, arri ved i n a northern m unity cal ed Iqal ui t i n N unavut. N unavut was created i n 1999 as a speci al area for Inui t peopl e. Its nam e m eans “O ur Land” i n thei r l anguage. It i s i n the farthest northeastern area of Canada, north or the Arcti c Circl e, and i s very col d – the average wi ter tem perature in N unavut i s 35 degrees bel ow zero. Beth sai d, “ I knew i t woul d be coul d in January, but not this col d! Maybe there i s a dog sl ed that can take m e i nto town. ” The qui et m an who had been on the pl ane wi th her sai d, “I?l l take you i nto town, but I don?t hace a dog sl ed. Most peopl e onl y use the dogs for peti ti ons, why are you visi ti ng Iqalui t?” Beth answered, “ I?m wri ti ng 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 to col d.” The m an l aughed. “My nam e i s Sim on and I am Inui t, ” he sai d. “I thi nk i t?s too far north here for holi days but more and m ore touri sts are ing. They li ke i ce fi shi ng and photographi ng pol ar bears. I star as far away from pol ar bears as posi bl e. I li ke m y warm offi ce and m y warm house.” “I?m business m an. My grandfather woul d li ve 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 make one i n a few hours. They used to li ve i n skin tents i n sum m er – the tents were easy to m ove so the peopl e coul d fol l ow the anim al s.” A few m i nutes l ater they arri ved i n Iqal ui t, a town wi th a popul ati on of 6000, on Sim 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 l the houses shone with bri ght li ghts. Beth sai d, “ Why i s i t so dark? It?s the m i ddl e of the day!” Sim on repli ed, “It ?s dark i n the day because we are so far north. You shoul d e i n June. The sun shines al ni ght i n the north then. That39。see the Mi sty cloud that rose from the great N i agara Fal s, which i s on the south si de of the lake. The water fl ows i nto the N i agara Ri ver and over the fal s on i ts way to the sea. They saw the covered stadi um, hom e of several fam ous basketbal l team s. As they wal ked north from the harbour area, Li Dai yu sai d, “Lin Fang, one of m y m other?s ol d schoolm ates, li ves here. I shoul d phone her from a tel ephone booth. ” They m et Li n Fei around dusk i n downtown Chi natown, one of the three i n Toronto. Over di nner at a restaurant cal ed The Pi nk Pearl , the cousi ns chatted wi th Lin Fei , who had m oved to Canada m any years earli er. “W e can get good Cantonese food here,” Li n Fei tol d them, “ because m ost of the Chinese 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 O ttawa, Canada?s capi tal. It?s approxim atel y four hundred kil om eters northeast of Toronto, so i t woul d take too l ong. ” The train l eft l ate that ni ght and arrived i n Montreal at dawn the next m orni ng. At the stati on, peopl e everywhere were speaki ng French. There were si ghs and ads i n French, but som e of them had Engli sh words i n smal er l etters. “We don39。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 th