Jane Goodall is known today as a great researcher who has spent much of her life studying chimpanzees(黑猩猩). But before her success she was just a girl who wished she could be“ as close to animals as I could.” It wasn’t long before her dream came true. She began her research in the 1960s in Tanzania. Her teacher was researcher Louis Leakey. He employed her although she lacked academic experience. She was 26 and too poor to attend a university.

The documentary “Jane” brings Goodall’ s story to vivid life. The film mainly came about because of the 2014 discovery of more than 140 hours of previously unseen footage( 片段) from the 1960s. It was filmed mostly by her then-husband Hugo van Lawick. We see the beginning of her explorations. It’s as if we have stepped into a time machine. We are up close not only to Goodall but to the chimpanzees, as they slowly learn to accept her presence in the wild. But at first, they saw her as an outsider. She was a “strange white ape(猿)”to them, Goodall says. Because of that, she felt that “I wasn’t really learning anything much.”

Goodall’s big breakthrough came when she observed, David Greybeard, a senior male chimpanzee, making a twig（细枝) into a tool for rooting out termites ( small white insects). Until then, it was thought that only humans made tools. Her findings were made fun of at first by the almost entirely male scientific community. Gradually, though, they were accepted.

However, after her beloved chimpanzee community got into a war with other chimpanzees, she makes it clear that she no longer had any belief that the animal world was perfect or peaceful. She said that “I had no idea of the cruelty that they could show.” This, too, is what links us with the apes, and it’ s clear that this is something she feels sad to admit.

Goodall remains a champion of African apes through the Jane Goodall Institute, which protects them from being hunted. Who could have predicted that the 26 - year- old woman that we first see in “Jane” would end up leading the word’s research of chimpanzees? Well, as this film shows, Jane Goodall could have predicted it.

Cervantes was born to poor parents. His future looked dark as he grew to see a life of sadness and poverty before him. He joined the army as a common soldier and was hurt so badly that he could not use his left arm.

He later failed to find a job and, on two occasions, was sent to prison. He continued to have brushes with the law and struggled just to survive.

But, despite these troubles of his life, he never let go of his dream - to write a book. He realized his dream and he wrote a book. In the book he told of a beautiful story which came from his heart’s deepest dreams. It is about a man who saw the world differently than everyone else. Though created in suffering, the book is an inspiring (鼓舞人的) story of hope. This man’s story has been put to music and film, translated into many languages and remains a literary classic after some 400 years. It has moved many people in the world. The author was Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and the book is Don Quijote de la Mancha (《唐吉可德》). Perhaps Cervantes himself believed that “the world sees people as they are - I see them as they can be! Cervantes may never have written such a wonderful work if he had not seen some potential（潜能） within himself. He knew, and has taught others ever since, that great truth: What we see will come to be. Some see situations as they are, others as they can be.

Some see people as they are, others as they can be. And some see themselves as they are, others as they can be. But when we set our sights upon the best that is within a situation or a human being, what we see will come to be. And we’ll know the power of hope.

As a boy, Sanders was much influenced(影响) by books about the sea, but by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a doctor. So he was often with the doctors and got along very well with them. When he was fourteen, he was already hanging around the hospital where he was supposed to be helping to clean the medicine bottles, but was actually trying to listen to the doctors’ conversations with patients in the next room.

During the war Sanders served in the army as a surgeon(外科医生). “That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with real sufferers and on the whole making a success of my job.” In Rhodes he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He had proved his skill to himself and had a firm belief that he could serve those who lived simply, and were dependent upon him. Thus, while in a position to tell them what to do he could feel he was serving them.

After the war, he married and set up a practice deep in the English countryside, working under an old doctor who hated the sight of blood. This gave the younger man plenty of opportunity(机会) to go on working as a life-saver.