必修四Unit 1 Women of Achievement成功的妇女
II．Reading A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE非洲野生动植物学生It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa.早上5:45分，太阳冉冉升起在东非的贡贝国家公园上，【注释：Gome National Park贡贝国家公园，位于东非的坦桑尼亚。
冈贝最常见的其他哺乳动物是灵长类。人们从20世纪60年代开始，就一直对它们进行研究，发现橄榄树狒狒最为常见，经常成群结队在海滨流连，而红尾猴和疣猴则一直以森林作为天然篷幛，疣猴经常遭受黑猩猩的追猎。】Following Jane’s way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest.按照詹尼研究黑猩猩的方法，我们这群人都将看到森林中的黑猩猩。【注释：following Jane’s way of studying chimps是现在分词作状语。】Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans.詹尼研究黑猩猩家族已有许多年了，她帮助人们理解黑猩猩怎样像人类一样地行为表现。【注释：behave vi.(行为或举止)表现eg. He has behaved well at school.他在学校表现良好。(2)工作eg. How is the new engine behaving?新的引擎运行得如何?】
Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.观察黑猩猩一家起床是我们当天的第一项活动。【注释：watching a family of chimps wake up是动名词短语作主语，谓语动词用第三人称单数式形式；另外动词不定式、名词从句作主语谓语动词均为第三人称单数式形式。】This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before.这就意味着：在前天夜里就要走回到我们让黑猩猩在树上睡觉的地方。【注释：mean doing sth.意味着…eg. These new orders for our manufactures will mean working overtime.这些订购我们产品的新订单意味着要加班。Mean to do sth.打
算做某事eg. I mean to stay here, if I can.若是能留下, 我想留在这儿。mean to 对…来说很重要eg.
1) Having my family around me means happiness to me.家人同我在一起就意味着幸福。2) The smell means dinner to the dog!对狗来说, 这气味意味着进食! 3) These symbols mean nothing to me.我完全不明白这些符号是什么意思。4) He means no harm to anyone.他无意伤害任何人。mean adj.吝啬的，小气的He's too
mean to make a donation.他很小气, 不肯捐款。】Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off.当黑猩猩一家开始醒来要离开的时候，大家在树下坐着等着。【注释：①while conj. (1)在…期间, 当…的时候; 与…同时While in prison, he wrote his first novel.他在狱中写出了第一部小说。(2) 而，然而（表示对比）eg. One person wants out, while the other wants the relationship to continue.一人想就此了断，而另一人想继续保持这种关系。(3)虽然，尽管eg. While I wouldn't recommend a night-time visit, by day the area is full of interest.虽然我不建议夜间游玩，但是在白天，这个地区很有玩头。②move off离开；死；畅销eg. 1) Check your mirrors before you move off.开车前注意
看看反光镜。 2) Farmers are rapidly moving off the land.农民正迅速离开土地。】 Then we follow as they wander into the forest.然后，当他们漫游到森林里，我们便跟着。 Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family.大多数情况下，黑猩猩们要么进食，要么相互清洁，在家族里这是作为一种表达爱的方式。【注释：either …or … 要么…要么… eg. Either I accompany you to your room or I wait here.要么我陪你去你的房间，要么我在这儿等。】 Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right .詹尼预先告诉我们到下午我们将会很累很脏，她说的对。【注释：warn sb. that 预告：预先通知或告诉： eg. They called and warned me that they might be delayed.他们打来电话，预先告诉我他们可能耽搁一会儿。 warn sb. of sth .警告某人当心某事；warn sb. not to do sth.警告某人不要做某事； 】 However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. 然而，晚上使得这一切都值得。【注释：worthwhile adj.值得做的, 值得出力的
(1) be well worth doing sth.很值得做某事 eg. The book is well worth reading
of sth.
值得，配得上 eg, The book is worthy of $50.
(2) be worthy of being done
eg. The book is worthy of being read
to be done eg. The book is worthy to be read
(3) It is worthwhile doing sth. eg. It is worthwhile reading the book.
to do sth.做某事是值得的 It is worthwhile to read the book.
试题：1. She has done some ____ things during the summer vacation, and she is ___ of being praised.
A . worthwhile; worthy B. worthwhile; worth C. worthy; worth D. worth; worthy
2. Try to spend your time just on the things you find ____.
A. worth doing them
B. worth being done
C. worthy of doing them D . worthy of being done 】We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree.我们观看黑猩猩妈妈和她的幼子在树上玩耍。 Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night.然后，我们看他们一起在巢穴睡觉过夜。 We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.我们意思到黑猩猩家族成员之间的关系和我们人类一样紧密。
Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour.在詹尼之前没有人懂得黑猩猩的行为举止。 She spent years observing and recording their daily activities.她花费了几年时间来观察和记录他们的日常活动。 【辨析： spend, pay, cost, take 这几个词均表示“花费”，区别在于句型结构不同：
sb. spend
sb. pay some money for sth. eg. I paid $10,000 for the car.
Sth. cost sb. sth. eg. Participating in the strike cost me my job.参加罢工而使我失去工作.
It takes sb. some time to do sth. eg. It took me two hours to finish my homework.】
Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment.自从童年时代，她就想和动物一起在野外自然环境下合作（生活）。 However, this was not easy.然而，这并不容易。 When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest.当她在1960年首次到达贡贝，对一位妇女来说生活在森林里是不同寻常的。 Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project.只有在头几个月她妈妈来帮她之后，才允许她开始她的项目。【注释：由only 及only 所修饰的状语位于句首时，主句要采用半倒装结构，但当only 修饰主语时，不倒装。如：1) Only when he entered, did she pick up the receiver. 他刚一进来她就接到了电话。 2) Only if it receives a copy of the latest report, can the committee make its decision by Friday of next week. 委员会只有在收到最后的报告后，才可以在下周五作出决定。 3) Only a doctor can do that.只有医生才能这样做。 】 Her work changed the way people think about chimps.她的工作改变了人们对黑猩猩的思考方式。 For example one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat . 例如，她所发现的一个重要情况就是：黑猩猩围猎并吃肉。【注释：that chimps hunt and eat meat.是由that 值得做 some time (in) doing sth. eg. I have spent four years studying English. some money on sth. eg. She always spends a lot of money on clothes.
