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   Many children may be fond of animals, but few ever think of making the study of animals their career (职业). Even fewer will be  1  by the whole world,  2  the title of United Nations Messenger (使者)of Peace.

     3  one woman has achieved all that. She has lived with chimpanzees(黑猩猩) in the African forest for more than 20 years and made great  4  . This woman is Jane Goodall. She was born in London, England, in 1934. Goodall's lifelong

  5  in animals began at an early age. By the age of 10 or 11, Goodall  6  going to Africa to live with animals. This was quite a strange dream in those days, as young  7  didn't think of having such "wild actions. But she was   8  by her mother. She told her that if she really wanted somtehing, she should work hard, take advantage of  9  and never give up looking for a way.

   When a close friend invited Goodall to Kenya in 1957, she readily  10  within a few months of her arrival she met the famous anthropologist (人类学家)Dr. Louis Leakey, who soon decided that Goodall was the  11  person he was looking for to begin a  12  of wild chimpanzees on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania.

    In July 1960, Goodall arrived at Combe National Park in Tanzania. At the beginning, studying the chimpanzees was not

  13  for her. The animals fled from her  14  , so it took months for her to get close to them. With a strong  15  ,she searched the forest every day, trying not to get too close to the chimpanzees too  16  . Gradually the chimpanzees became used to her presence.

    She discovered many things of chimpanzees during her first years at Combe National Park. In October 1960, she observed a chimpanzee making and using  17  to fish for termites (蚂蚁). This discovery threw  18   on the popular idea at the time that Man was the world's only toolmaker.  The longer Goodall's research continues, the more it becomes obvious that chimpanzees are very   19  to humans.

Since the mid-1980s Goodall has been lecturing around the world to raise people's sense about environmental  20 "Let's live in the new age witlh hope, respect for all living things, understanding and love,"she said.

1. A. recognized   B. known    C. praised    D. admitted

答案: A  指导:recognize此处意为“承认(地位、影响等)”。此处指在动物研究方面得到世界公认的人屈指可数。known"被知道”语意太轻,“赞扬”意义太片面,admitted"被接受”不合题意。

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