1、 Nobody before Jane 21. _ (full) understood chimp 22. _ (行为). She spent years 23. _ (观察) and recording their daily activities. Since her 24. _ (童年) she had wanted to work with animals in 25. _ own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, 26. _ was unusual for
2、 a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months 27. _ (短:她被允许) to begin her 28. _ (项目;工程). Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was 29. _ chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had t
3、hought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually30. _ (观察) chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps 31. _ (短:彼此沟通), and her study of their body language helped her work out their 32. _ (society) system. 33. _ forty years Jane Goodall has been 34. _ (直言
4、不讳的) about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She 35. _ (认为;争论;辩论) that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for 36. _ (娱乐) or advertisements. She has helped to 37. _ (短:设立) special places 38. _ they can live 39. _ (safe). She is 40. _ (短:过
5、着忙碌的生活) but she says: Once I stop, it all comes 41. _ (短:想法涌上心头) and I remember the chimps in laboratories. Its terrible. It affects me 42. _ I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, Arent they lucky? And then I think about small chimps in cages 43. _ they have done nothing wrong. Once you have see
6、n that you can never forget . She has 44. _ (实现)everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctors degree and showing 45. _ women can live in the forest as men can. She 46. _ (激励) those 47._want to cheer the achievements of women.WHY NOT CARRY ON HER GOOD W
7、ORK?I enjoyed English, biology, and chemistry at school, but 1. _ one should I choose to study at university? I did not know the answer 2. _ one evening when I sat down at the computer to 3. _ (短:做关于的一些研究) great women of China. 4. _ (短:碰巧) I 5. _ (偶然)遇见) an article about a doctor 6. _ (call) Lin Qia
8、ozhi, a 7. _ (专家) in womens diseases. She lived from 1901 to 1983. It seemed 8. _ she had been very busy in her chosen career, travelling abroad to study as well as 9. _ (write) books and articles. One of them 10. _ (短:吸引了我的目光). It was a small book 11. _ (explain) how to 12. _ (短:降低死亡率) from having
9、and 13. _ (短:护理) babies. She gave some simple rules to follow for keeping babies clean, healthy and free 14. _ sickness. Why did she write that? Who were the women 15. _ Lin Qiaozhi thought needed this advice? I looked 16. _ (care) at the text and realized that it 17. _ (短:为所准备的;为设计的) women in the c
10、ountryside. Perhaps if they had an 18. _ (紧急情况) they could not reach a doctor. Suddenly it hit me how difficult it was for a woman 19. _ (get) medical training at that time. That was a 20. _ (一代;一辈) 21. _ girls education was always placed second to boys. Was she so much cleverer than anyone else? Fu
11、rther reading made me realize that 22. _was hard work and 23. _ (决心) as well as her gentle nature that got her into medical school. 24. _ made her succeed later on was the 25. _ (仁慈;善良) and 26. _ (周全的考虑) she showed to all her patients. There was story after story of how Lin Qiaozhi, 27. _ (tired) af
12、ter a days work, went late at night to 28. _ (短:接生小孩) for a poor family 29. _ could not pay her. By now I could not wait to find out more about her. I discovered that Lin Qiaozhi 30. _ (奉献) her whole life 31. _ her patients and had chosen not to have a family of her own. Instead she made sure 32. _
13、about 50,000 babies were safely delivered. By this time I was very excited. Why not study at medical college like Lin Qiaozhi and 33. _ (短:继续;坚持) her good work? It was still not too late for me to improve my studies, prepare for the university entrance examinations, and.Unit 2 A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOP
14、LE Although he is one of Chinas most famous scientists, Yuan Longping _ himself a farmer, for he _the land to do his research. Indeed, his _face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has _the past five decades. Dr Yuan Longping grows_is ca
15、lled super hybrid rice. In 1974, he became the first _pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high _. This special strain of rice makes _possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice_in China each year is from this _. Born _a poor farmers famil
16、y in 1930, Dr Yuan _Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. _a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, hunger was a _ problem in many parts of the countryside. Dr Yuan_a way to increase rice har
17、vests without _the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, _, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced. These _harvests mean that 22% of the worlds people _fed from just 7% of the farmland in China. Dr Yuan is now _
18、 his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. _his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to_ the world _hunger. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice_before. Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life. However, h
19、e doesnt _being famous. He feels it gives him less_ to do his research. He would much rather _ time for his hobbles. He enjoys_violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. Spending money _himself or _ a comfortable life also means very little to him._, he believes that a person with too muc
20、h money has more _fewer troubles. He _ gives millions of yuan to _ others for their research in agriculture. Just _for things, however, _nothing. Long ago Dr yuan had a dream about rice plants as tall as sorghum. Each _of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a pean
21、ut. Dr Yuan _from his dream _ the hope of producing a kind of rice_ could feed more people. Now, many years later, Dr Yuan has another dream: to _ his rice so that it can be grown _. One dream is not always enough, especially for a person _ loves and cares _ his people. CHEMICAL OR ORGANIC FARMING?_
22、 the past half century, using chemical fertilizers has become very common _farming. Many farmers welcomed them _a great way to stop crop disease and increase production. Recently, however, scientists _that long-term use of these fertilizers can _the land and, even _ dangerous, to peoples health. Wha
23、t are some of the problems caused _ chemical fertilizers? First, they damage the land by killing the helpful bacteria and pests _ the harmful ones. Chemicals also _ in the ground and underground water for a long time. This _ crops and, therefore, animals and humans, _chemicals get inside the crops a
24、nd cannot just_. These chemicals in the food supply _ in peoples bodies over time. Many of these chemicals can _cancer or other illnesses. _, fruit, vegetables and other food grown _ chemical fertilizers usually grow too fast to be full of much nutrition. They may look beautiful, but inside there is usually more water than vitamins and minerals. _these discoveries, some farmers and many customers are beginning to _ organic farming. Organic far
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