题目内容
Jane Goodall is a famous scientist. For more than 40 years, Goodall lived mostly in Tanzania in East Africa, studying chimpanzees.
As a young child, Jane Goodall was interested in animals. She grew up in the English countryside and was always climbing trees or riding horses.
When Jane was 23, she got a chance to go to Africa. Even though she had never been to college, she got a job with a famous scientist named Louis Leakey.
One day Louis Leakey said he needed a volunteer. He needed someone to go to a lake in Tanzania to study a kind of chimpanzees. Jane was excited.
On July 16, 1960, she began her explore (探索). At first, the chimpanzees ran away from Jane. But with time passing, they got used to her being around.
Every day, Jane would follow the chimpanzees, taking notes on their behavior. She learned many new things about chimpanzees. She watched how a chimpanzee made a tool.
She learned how some chimpanzees became good leaders. She watched how mother chimpanzees raised their children. She watched animals get angry and get upset. She wrote everything down so others would understand animals as she did. She learned that if you pay really close attention to animals, you will understand what they are “saying”.
50. Jane Goodall grew up in the ____.
A. countryside B. city C. town D. college
51. Jane learned chimpanzees could ____.
A. ride a horse B. follow her C. make a tool D. understand her
52. Jane ____ the chimpanzees’ behaviors to help others understand them.
A. wrote down B. took pictures of
C. made videos of D. drew pictures about
50. A 51. C 52. A
1Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each one can only be used once. (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词,每次只能填一次)
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A. The way B. from a distance C. own D. has studied E. grew F. recording G. like H. do I. act |
Jane Goodall is a famous woman scientist, who __1___ chimpanzees(黑猩猩)in
Africa for many years. Her research helps people understand how much they behave __2___humans. Nobody before has fully understood chimpanzees’ behavior. Jane spent many years observing and ___3___ their daily activities. She did not study at a university but she worked with animals in their __4__ environment. When she arrived at Gombe(贡贝在尼日尼亚) in 1960, it was usually for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first months, was she allowed to begin her project. At first, Jane could not get close to the chimpanzees of Gombe, but little by little she was able to move closer to the chimpanzees and watch them __5__ with binoculars(望远镜). Finally, Jane ___6___ very close to the chimpanzees at Gombe. Jane’s patience and trust won them over, and she enjoyed a degree of acceptance(接受度) that was hardly dreamed possible. She sat among the chimpanzees, and they would greet her as they __7__ each other with a touch or a kiss.
Her work has changed __8__ people think about chimpanzees, and she has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. Perhaps most significantly, Jane’s work has opened a window into the world of chimpanzees for a public with a strong curiosity(好奇心), and it has proved more successful than anyone has ever imagined.
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