1、and saw farms that covered thousands of acres. Afrer dinner, they were back in an urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water than any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the w
2、orlds total fresh water, and much of it is in the Great Lakes. That night as they slept, the train rushed across the top of Lake Superior, through the great forests and southward towads Toronto. “The True North” from Toronto to Montreal The next morning the bushes and maple trees outside their windo
3、w were red, gold and orange, and there was frost on the ground, confirming that fall had arrived in Canada. Around noon they arrived in Toronto, the biggest and most wealthy city in Canada. They were not leaving for Montreal until later, so they went on a tour of the city. They went up the tall CN T
4、ower and looked across the lake. In the distance, they could see the Misty cloud that rose from the great Niagara Falls, which is on the south side of the lake. The water flows into the Niagara River and over the falls on its way to the sea. They saw the covered stadium, home of several famous baske
5、tball teams. As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu said, “Lin Fang, one of my mothers old schoolmates, lives here. I should phone her from a telephone booth.” They met Lin Fei around dusk in downtown Chinatown, one of the three in Toronto. Over dinner at a restaurant called The Pink P
6、earl, the cousins chatted with Lin Fei, who had moved to Canada many years earlier. “We can get good Cantonese food here,” Lin Feitold them, “ because most of the Chinese people here come from South China, especially Hong Kong. Its too bad you cant go as far as Ottawa, Canadas capital. Its approxima
7、tely four hundred kilometers northeast of Toronto, so it would take too long.” The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning. At the station, people everywhere were speaking French. There were sighs and ads in French, but some of them had English words in smaller le
8、tters. “We dont leave until this evening,” said Liu Qian. “Lets go downtown. Old Montreal is close to the water.” They spent the afternoon in lovely shops and visiting artists in their workplaces beside the water. As they sat in a Buffet restaurant looking over the broad St Lawrence River, a young m
9、an sat down with them. “Hello, my name is Henri. Im a student at the university nearby,” he said,” and I was wondering where you are from.” The girls told him they were on a trp across Canada and that they had only on day in Montreal. “Thats too bad,” he said. “Montreal is a city with wonderful rest
10、aurants and clubs. Most of us speak both English and French, but the city has French culture and traditions. We love good coffee, good bread and good music.” That night as the transfer was speeding along the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cou
11、sins 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 area for Inuit people. Its name means “Our Land” in their language. It is in the farthest nor
12、theastern 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 plan
13、e 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 advertise it as a holiday place, but I think its too cold.” The man laug
14、hed. “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 like my warm office and my warm house.” “Im business man. My gr
15、andfather 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
16、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 day because we are so far north. You should come
17、 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 Unit 1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe Nationa
18、l 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 chimps waking up is our first activity of the d
19、ay. 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 time,chimps either feed or clean each other
20、 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 go to sleep together in their nest for the
21、night.We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong 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 with animals in their own environment.Howe
22、ver,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.For example,one important thing she discove
23、red 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 has beenoutspoken about making the rest
24、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 but she says: “Once I stop,it all comes c
25、rowding 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 forget“ She has achieved everything she
26、 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 chemistry at school,but which one sho
27、uld 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 lived from 1901 to 1983 .It seemed th
28、at 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 that Lin Qiaozhi thought neede
29、d 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.Thatand saw farms that covered thousand
30、s of acres. Afrer dinner, they were back in an urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water than any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the worlds total fresh water, and much o
31、f it is in the Great Lakes. That night as they slept, the train rushed across the top of Lake Superior, through the great forests and southward towads Toronto. “The True North” from Toronto to Montreal The next morning the bushes and maple trees outside their window were red, gold and orange, and th
32、ere was frost on the ground, confirming that fall had arrived in Canada. Around noon they arrived in Toronto, the biggest and most wealthy city in Canada. They were not leaving for Montreal until later, so they went on a tour of the city. They went up the tall CN Tower and looked across the lake. In
33、 the distance, they could see the Misty cloud that rose from the great Niagara Falls, which is on the south side of the lake. The water flows into the Niagara River and over the falls on its way to the sea. They saw the covered stadium, home of several famous basketball teams. As they walked north f
34、rom the harbour area, Li Daiyu said, “Lin Fang, one of my mothers old schoolmates, lives here. I should phone her from a telephone booth.” They met Lin Fei around dusk in downtown Chinatown, one of the three in Toronto. Over dinner at a restaurant called The Pink Pearl, the cousins chatted with Lin
35、Fei, who had moved to Canada many years earlier. “We can get good Cantonese food here,” Lin Feitold them, “ because most of the Chinese people here come from South China, especially Hong Kong. Its too bad you cant go as far as Ottawa, Canadas capital. Its approximately four hundred kilometers northe
36、ast of Toronto, so it would take too long.” The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning. At the station, people everywhere were speaking French. There were sighs and ads in French, but some of them had English words in smaller letters. “We dont leave until this ev
37、ening,” said Liu Qian. “Lets go downtown. Old Montreal is close to the water.” They spent the afternoon in lovely shops and visiting artists in their workplaces beside the water. As they sat in a Buffet restaurant looking over the broad St Lawrence River, a young man sat down with them. “Hello, my n
38、ame is Henri. Im a student at the university nearby,” he said,” and I was wondering where you are from.” The girls told him they were on a trp across Canada and that they had only on day in Montreal. “Thats too bad,” he said. “Montreal is a city with wonderful restaurants and clubs. Most of us speak
39、 both English and French, but the city has French culture and traditions. We love good coffee, good bread and good music.” That night as the transfer was speeding along the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cousins dreamed of French restaurants
40、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 area for Inuit people. Its name means “Our Land” in their language. It is in the farthest northeastern area of Canada, north or
41、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, “Ill take you into
42、 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 advertise it as a holiday place, but I think its too cold.” The man laughed. “My name is Simon and I am Inu
43、it,” 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 like my warm office and my warm house.” “Im business man. My grandfather would live in ice houses
44、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
45、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 day because we are so far north. You should come in June. The sun shines all night
46、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 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 Jan
47、es 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 chimps waking up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the pl
48、ace 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 time,chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their
49、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 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. Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour.She spent years observing and recording their daily activities.Since her childh
