23．By saying "My skis are part of my body now"，Heil means she __C__.

A．likes walking on her skis

B．will carry her skis everywhere

C．loves skiing very much

D．couldn't rid her daily life of skis

23.解析：推理判断题。通读全文，尤其是本句后的"She has spent so much time on them and she never feels bored at all！"可知，她钟爱滑雪。

24．What's the text mainly about？__A__

A．Jennifer Heil's sports career.

B．Difficulties Jennifer Heil has in life.

C．The 2002 Winter Olympics.

D．Jennifer Heil's winning the World Cup.

24.解析：主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了加拿大女子滑雪运动员Jennifer Heil的运动生涯，因此A项正确。

B

Dr Dian Fossey，one of the world's leading women scientists，had a remarkable career.The work-she devoted her life to protecting and studying the mountain gorillas(大猩猩)of Africa-has proved highly effective and has resulted in the steady (平稳的)increase of this most endangered great apes.

Fossey made her first trip to Africa in 1963.Three years later，she returned to Africa to begin a long－time study of the mountain gorillas.She set up camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo but moved to Rwanda because of political reasons in 1967.She established her "Karisoke" Research Centre camp on September 24,1967.

Fossey's aims were to study gorilla ecology (生态学)and social organization.She found that in order to achieve this，she needed to recognize individual gorillas，which required that the gorillas get used to her presence (出现).By copying gorillas' behaviour and sounds，Fossey began to gain their trust，and in 1970 an adult male gorilla she had named "Peanuts" reached out to touch her hand.

Close observations over thousands of hours enabled Fossey to gain the gorillas' trust and bring forth new knowledge about their behaviour.Stories and photographs of her work were published in National Geographic Magazine and elsewhere.

In 1977，one of Fossey's favorite gorillas，Digit，was killed by poachers and she established the Digit Fund to help raise money for gorilla protection efforts in the same year.

On December 26，1985，Fossey was murdered while going back to her house in Karisoke.Her body was discovered near the research centre.Most probably，Dian Fossey had been killed by the poachers she'd fought against.On her tombstone(墓碑)，"No one loved gorillas more..."

In 1988，the life and the work of Fossey were made into a movie based on her book.

1．Why does the author say Dr Dian Fossey "had a remarkable career"？__D__

A．Because she travelled all over the world.

B．Because she liked to play with gorillas.