人教版高中英语必修4课文.docx

1、人教版高中英语必修4课文Unit 1 Women of achievementWarming Up Examine the following six women using the rules about what makes a great person. In pairs discuss what they have in common and what makes them great. Give your reasons.1. Joan of Arc was a girl from the countryside who dressed as a man and went to fi

2、ght for the French. She helped drive the English out of France. She was caught and put to death by the English.2. Elizabeth Fry was a Quaker. She helped improve prison conditions and gave prisoners work and education. Her work helped the Quakers get the Nobel peace prize in 1947.3. Song Qingling, Dr

3、 Sun Yat-sens wife, was one of the top leaders in modern Chinese history. She concerned herself with welfare projects, especially the China Welfare Institute for women and children.4. Lin Qiaozhi was a doctor who became a specialist in womens illnesses. She devoted all her life to medical work for C

4、hinese women and children. Her work encouraged many other women to become doctors.5. As a young girl, she always wanted to study animals. She went to Africa and studied chimps instead of going to university. Her research showed the connections between chimps and human beings. She works to protect ch

5、imps everywhere.6. Jody Williams helped found and international campaign to stop the making of landmines. She also worked hard to make as many countries as possible agree not to use them. She and her organization were given the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.ReadingA STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE1It is 5:4

6、5 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. 2Following Janes way or studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. 3Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. 4Watching a

7、family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. 5This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. 6Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. 7Then we follow as they wander into the fo

8、rest. 8Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. 9Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. 10However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. 11We watch the mother chimp and her babies pl

9、ay in the tree. 12Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. 13We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.14Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. 15She spent years observing and recording their daily activities.

10、 16Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. 17However, this was not easy. 18When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. 19Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin h

11、er project. 20Her work changed the way people think about chimps. 21For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. 22Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. 23She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and them eating it. 24Sh

12、e also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.25For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. 26She has argued that wild ani

13、mals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. 27She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. 28She is leading a busy life but she says:29”Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. 30Its terrible. 31It a

14、ffects me when I watch the wild chimps. 32I say to myself, Arent they lucky? 33And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. 34Once you have seen that you can never forget.”35She has achieved everything she wanted to do: 36working with animals in their own environ

15、ment, gaining a doctors degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can. 37She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.WHY NOT CARRY ON HER GOOD WORK?1I enjoyed English, biology, and chemistry at school, but which one should I choose to study at university? 2I did

16、not know the answer until one evening when I sat down at the computer to do some research on great women of China.3By chance I came across an article about a doctor called Lin Qiaozhi, a specialist in womens diseases. She lived from 1901 to 1983. 4It seemed that she had been very busy in her chosen career, travelling abroad to study as well