Passage 23
学霸导读 享誉世界的生物学家简·古多尔是如何在自己梦想的工作领域走下去的？
From a very young age， Jane Goodall showed a natural fascination for animals and their behavior. When she was just f ive years old she went missing for several hours， much to the worry of her parents， after following a hen into her coop （ 鸡笼 ） to f ind out where eggs came from. I 1 of being told off by her parents， Jane’s curiosity was encouraged， and after reading The Story of Doctor Dolittle and the Tarzan novels， it soon became her ambition to study animals in the wilds of Africa.
She eventually m 2 it to the African continent when she was 23， and after meeting anthropologist （ 人类学家 ） and palaeontologist （ 古生物学家 ） Dr. Louis Leakey， she landed her dream job. Leakey wanted someone “with a mind unbiased （ 无偏见的 ） by theory” to study chimpanzees in their natural habitat （ 栖息地 ）， and because Jane had no formal science qualif ications he decided she would be the p 3 person for the task. He sent her to Gombe in Tanzania to live among the chimps. Equipped with just a notepad and a pair of binoculars， she began watching them from afar.
In just a year she had managed to get the chimps to accept her and a 4 her to get close enough to make some groundbreaking observations. Jane was the f irst person to witness chimps not only making and using tools, but also hunting and eating other animals—it was previously thought that they were vegetarian. She also noted that they have emotions and personalities much like us, as she watched them hug and kiss as well as f ight and kill.
However， many in the wider， male-dominated （ 男性主导的 ） scientif ic community were unwilling to accept the d 5 of an uneducated woman. Some even believed Jane had taught the chimps to use tools， and criticized her for giving them names and personalities. “I didn’t give them personalities， I merely （ 仅仅 ） discovered their personalities，” she said.
Although she had no ambition to be a scientist， Dr. Leakey insisted Jane studied for a PhD in ethology to give her research more credibility （ 可信度 ）.
She obliged （ 顺从 ）， but only so she could go back to Gombe. There， she set up a research center and spent the next 25 years making further important discoveries about our c 6 living relatives. Sadly， during that time she also observed the destruction （ 破坏 ） of their habitat and subsequent decline in their population. Today she travels the world campaigning （ 宣传 ） for wildlife conservation and educating the next g 7 of chimp champions （ 保护者 ）.
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高频词汇
groundbreaking /'graʊndbreɪkɪŋ/ adj. 开创性的；创新的；革新的
witness /'wɪtnəs/ v. 目击；见证
previously /'priː viəsli/ adv. 先前；以前
criticize /'krɪtɪsaɪz/ v. 批评；批判
ambition /æm'bɪʃn/ n. 雄心；志向；抱负
insist /ɪn'sɪst/ v. 坚决要求；坚持