1、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 community called Iqaluit in Nunavut.Nunavut was created in 1999 as a special ar
2、ea 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 i
3、s a dog sled that can take me into town.”The quiet man who had been on the plane with her said,“Ill take you into town,but I dont hace a dog sled.Most people only use the dogs for competitions,why are you visiting Iqaluit?”Beth answered,“Im writing a story for my newspaper about Iqaluit wed like to
4、advertise it as a holiday place,but I think its too cold.”The man laughed.“My name is Simon and I am Inuit,”he said.“I think its too far north here for holidays but more and more tourists are coming.They like ice fishing and photographing polar bears.I star as far away from polar bears as possible.I
5、 like my warm office and my warm house.”“Im 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 th
6、e animals.”A few minutes later they arrived in Iqaluit,a town with a population of 6000,on Simons snowmobile.It was two oclock in the afternoon,but it was already dark,and all the houses shone with bright lights.Beth said,“Why is it so dark?Its the middle of the day!”Simon replied,“Its dark in the d
7、ay because we are so far north.You should come in June.The sun shines all night in the north then.Thats why its called The Land of the Midnight Sun.”There were people on the streets and snowmobiles everywhere.There were even a few dog teams.必修四必修四 Unit 1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am a
8、nd the sun is just rising over Gombe National park in east Africa.Following Janes way of studying chimps,our group are all going to visit them in the forest.Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans.Watching a familyof chim
9、ps 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 before.Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off.Then we follow as they wonder into the forest.Most of the t
10、ime,chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family.Jane worns us that our grou is going tobe very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right.However,the evening makes it all worthwhile.We watch the mother chimpand her babies play in the tree.Then we see them g
11、o to sleep together in their nest for the night.We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as str ong as in a human family.Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour.She spent years observing and recording their daily activities.Since her childhood she had wanted to work
12、with animals in their own environment.However,this was not easy.When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960,it was unusual for a woman to live in a forest.Only after her mother came to helpher for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project.Her work changed the way people think of chimps.F
13、or example,one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat.Until then every thought chimps only eat fruit and nuts.She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other,and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.For forty years Jane Goodall
14、 has beenoutspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.She has argued that animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements.She has helped to set up special places where the can live safely.She is leading a busy life
15、but she says:“Once I stop,it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories.Its terrible.It affacts me when I watch the wild chimps.I say to myself,Arent they lucky?And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong.Once you have seen that you can never
16、 forget“She has achieved everything she wanted to do:working with animals in their own environment,gaining a doctors degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can.She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.WHY NOT CARRY ON HER WORK?I enjyed English,biology,and c
17、hemistry 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 computer 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 womens diseases.She live
18、d 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 articles.One of them caught my eye.It was a small book explaining how to keeping babies clean,healthy and free from sickness.Why did she write that?Who were the women
19、that Lin Qiaozhi thought needed this advice?I looked carefully at the text and realize that it was intended for women in the countryside.Perhaps 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 time.That was a
20、 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 school.What made her succeed later on was the kindness and consi
21、deration she showed to all her patiens.There was story after story of how Lin Qiaozhi,tired after a days work,went late at night to deliver a baby for a pool family who could not pay her.By now I could not wait to find out more about her.I discovered that Lin Qiaozhi had devoted her whole life to he
22、rpatiens and had chosen not to have a family of her own.Instead she made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered.By this time I was very excited.Why not study at medical college like Lin Qiaozhi and carry on h er good work?It was still not too late for me to improve my studies,prepare fo
23、r the university entrance examinations,and ELIZABETH FRY When the Quaker Elizabeth married Joseph Fry,it seemed as if her life would be comfortable and peaceful.However,Elizabeth was not content with her easy life and her growing family.She saw many poor people living near her and she wanted to help
24、 them.One day she was asked to visit a prison.At first the prison officers did not want to let her visit the women prisoners because they feared the prisoners would attack her,but Elizabeth was not afraid.She realiz ed that the prisoners behave badlly because they were treated like animals.They had
25、no beds,clean clothes,food or heating.Any child born in prison had to stay there and had no chance of an education.This meant they would probably have to beg or steal when they grew up and then would return to prison.So the first thing Elizabeth did was to provide food,clean clothes and straw for be
26、ds.Later she began a prison schoolfor the chilldren and taught the women to sew,knit and make goods to sell.In this way they able to make a little money for themselves and gain some self-respect.Her lindnesshelped her gain the friendshipof prisoners and they began to try to improve their conditions
27、for themselves.Later Elizabeth was asked to go to the leaders of Britain to discuss how to improve the conditions for prisoners。Of course she did not do all the work on her own.Other Quaker women helped her and went around the country raising money for her wprk.Some people did not like her ideas and
28、 quarrelled with her.They said that she should spend more time with her family.Other people said she enjoyed being famous toomuch.However,her husband,Joseph,supported and encouraged her,so she continued working to help improve the lives of poor prisoners tillshe died.Her ideas did not disappear afte
29、r her death and her work was remembered in 1947 when the Quakers were given the Noble Peace Prize.Unit 2 A pioneer for all people Although he is one of Chinas 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 map
30、le leaves.Iqaluit the frozen town The reporter,Beth Allen,arrived in a northern community 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,an
31、d 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,“Ill take you into town,but I dont hace a dog
32、sled.Most people only use the dogs for competitions,why are you visiting Iqaluit?”Beth answered,“Im writing a story for my newspaper about Iqaluit wed like to advertise it as a holiday place,but I think its too cold.”The man laughed.“My name is Simon and I am Inuit,”he said.“I think its too far nort
33、h here for holidays but more and more tourists are coming.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.”“Im business man.My grandfather would live in ice houses when he hunted in winter,but not so many peo
34、ple 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 Simons snowmobile.It was two oclock in the afterno
35、on,but it was already dark,and all the houses shone with bright lights.Beth said,“Why is it so dark?Its the middle of the day!”Simon replied,“Its dark in the day because we are so far north.You should come in June.The sun shines all night in the north then.Thats why its called The Land of the Midnig
36、ht Sun.”There were people on the streets and snowmobiles everywhere.There were even a few dog teams.必修四必修四 Unit 1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National park in east Africa.Following Janes way of studying chimps,our group are all going to visit the
37、m in the forest.Jane 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 before
38、.Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off.Then we follow as they wonder into the forest.Most of the time,chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family.Jane worns us that our grou is going tobe very tired and
39、dirty by the afternoon and she is right.However,the evening makes it all worthwhile.We watch the mother chimpand her babies play in the tree.Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night.We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.
40、Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour.She spent years observing and recording their daily activities.Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment.However,this was not easy.When sh e first arrived in Gombe in 1960,it was unusual for a woman to live in
41、 a forest.Only after her mother came to helpher for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project.Her work changed the way people think of chimps.For example,one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat.Until then every thought chimps only eat fruit and nuts.She a
42、lso discovered how chimps communicate 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 animals.She has argued that animals should be
43、left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements.She has helped to set up special places where the can live safely.She is leading a busy life but she says:“Once I stop,it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories.Its terrible.It affacts me when I watch the wild
44、 chimps.I say to myself,Arent they lucky?And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong.Once you have seen that you can never forget“She has achieved everything she wanted to do:working with animals in their own environment,gaining a doctors degree and showing that
45、women can live in the forest as men can.She 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 co
46、mputer 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 womens diseases.She 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 articles
47、.One of them caught my eye.It was a small book explaining how to keeping babies clean,healthy and free from sickness.Why 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 countryside.Perh
48、aps 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 time.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
49、that it was hard work and determination as well as her gentle nature that got her into medical school.What made her succeed later on was the kindness and consideration she showed to all her patiens.There was story after story of how Lin Qiaozhi,tired after a days work,went late at night to deliver a
50、 baby for a pool family who could not pay her.By now I could not wait to find out more about her.I discovered that Lin Qiaozhi had devoted her whole life to herpatiens and had chosen not to have a family of her own.Instead she made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered.By this time I w
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