【正文】 north. You should e in June. The sun shines all night in the north then. That39。the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cousins dreamed of French restaurants and red maple leaves. Iqaluit – the frozen town The reporter, Beth Allen, arrived in a northern munity called Iqaluit in Nunavut. Nunavut was created in 1999 as a special area for Inuit people. Its name means “Our Land” in their language. It is in the farthest northeastern area of Canada, north or the Arctic Circle, and is very cold – the average witer temperature in Nunavut is 35 degrees below zero. Beth said, “ I knew it would be could in January, but not this cold! Maybe there is a dog sled that can take me into town.” The quiet man who had been on the plane with her said, “I’ll take you into town, but I don’t hace a dog sled. Most people only use the dogs for petitions, why are you visiting Iqaluit?” Beth answered, “ I’m writing a story for my newspaper about Iqaluit – we’d like to advertise it as a holiday place, but I think it’s too cold.” The man laughed. “My name is Simon and I am Inuit,” he said. “I think it’s too far north here for holidays but more and more tourists are ing. They like ice fishing and photographing polar bears. I star as far away from polar bears as possible. I like my warm office and my warm house.” “I’m business man. My grandfather would live in ice houses when he hunted in winter, but not so many people do that now. the old men used to make one in a few hours. They used to live in skin tents in summer – the tents were easy to move so the people could follow the animals.” A few minutes later they arrived in Iqaluit, a town with a population of 6000, on Simon’s snowmobile. It was two o’clock in the afternoon, but it was already dark, and all the houses shone with bright lights. Beth said, “ Why is it so dark? It’s the middle of the day!” Simon replied, “It’s dark in the day because we are so far north. You should e in June. The sun shines all night in the north then. That39。s why it’s called ‘The Land of the Midnight Sun’.” There were people on the streets and snowmobiles everywhere. There were even a few dog teams. 必修四 Unit 1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National park in east Jane’s way of studying chimps,our group are all going to visit them in the has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a familyof chimps waking up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move we follow as they wonder into the of the time,chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their worns us that our grou is going tobe very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is ,the evening makes it all watch the mother chimpand her babies play in the we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family. Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp spent years observing and recording their daily her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own ,this was not she first arrived in Gombe in 1960,it was unusual for a woman to live in a after her mother came to helpher for the first few months was she allowed to begin her work changed the way people think of example,one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat then every thought chimps only eat fruit and also discovered how chimps municate with each other,and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system. For forty years Jane Goodall has beenoutspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these has argued that animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or has helped to set up special places where the can live is leading a busy life but she says: “Once I stop,it all es crowding in and I remember the chimps in ’s affacts me when I watch the wild say to myself,’Aren’t they lucky?’And then I think about small 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 showing that women can live in the forest as men inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women. WHY NOT CARRY ON HER WORK? I enjyed English ,biology,and chemistry at school,but which one should I choose to study at university ?i did not know the answer until one evening when I sat down at the puter to do some research on great women of China. By chance I came across an article about a doctor called Lin Qiaozhi, a specalist in women’s lived from 1901 to 1983 .It seemed that she had been very busy in her chosen career ,travling abored to study as well as writing books and of them caught my eye. It was a small book explaining how to keeping babies clean,healthy and free from did she write that?Who were the women that Lin Qiaozhi thought needed this advice?I looked carefully at the text and realize that it was intended for women in the if they had an emergency they could not reach a doctor. Suddenly it hit me how difficult it was for a woman to get medical training ata that was a generation when girls’ education was always placred decond to boys’.Was she so much cleverer than anyone else?Further reading made me realize that it was hard work and determination as well as her gentle nature that got her into medical made her succeed later on was the kindness and consideration she showed to all her 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 could n