Unit 13 People
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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On a visit to Japan, Wangari Maathai learned the story of the hummingbird () and the
forest fire. While the other animals run in fear, the hummingbird flies above the fire time and
again, leaving a few drops of water from its beak.
“Why do you bother?” the other animals shout at the hummingbird. “I'm doing the best that
I can,” the hummingbird replies.
“It's such a beautiful story,” Ms. Maathai says, thinking of the world's environmental problems.
“There's always something we can do with our little beak like the little hummingbird.”
In 2004 Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding the Green Belt
Movement (GBM), which hires villagers, especially women, to improve the environment. Since
then, she's realized that people's values are what inspire them. If the values are good ones, good
actions will follow.
?If you don't have good values, you'll develop vices (恶劣行径),” says Maathai. “And if we give
in to the vice, we destroy ourselves. We destroy the environment.” That's the message of her
new book.
In 1971, Maathai received a doctor's degree from the University of Nairobi, the largest
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