八下精能力题任务型阅读及答案.doc

1 X. 任务型阅读阅读短文, 按要求完成各题。(5 分) Jane Goodall is one of the most well-known scientists in the world. Much of the information we have today about es from the research of Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall was born in London in 1934. She became interested in animals and animal stories when she was a very young child. She always dreamed of working with wild animals. When she was eleven years old, she decided that she wanted to go to Africa to live with and write about animals. But this was not the kind of thing young women usually did in the 1940s. Everybody was laughing except her mother. “ If you really want something, you work hard, you take advantage of opportunity, you never give up, you find a way, ” her mother said to her. The opportunity came at last. A school friend invited her to Africa. Jane worked asa waitress until she had got enough money to travel there. In 1957, Jane Goodall traveled to Africa. She soon met the well-known scientist Louis Leakey and began working for him as an assistant. He later asked her to study a group of chimpanzees living bya lake in Tanzania. Very little was known about wild chimpanzees at that time. Jane spent many years studying chimpanzees in this area of Africa. It was not easy work. They were very shy and would run away whenever she came near. She learned to watch them from far away using binoculars. Over time, she slowly gained their trust( 信任). S