Many children may be found of animals, but few ever think of making the study of animals their career.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 something, 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 Gombe 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 Gombe National Park.In October 1960, she observed a chimpanzee making and using 17 to fish for termites(白蚁).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 with hope, respect for all loving things, understanding and love,” she said.