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Jane Goodall Gets Her Own Doll

The Mattel toy company has created a new Barbie doll with the famous British scientist Jane Goodall as its model.

The company released the new doll this week, the latest member of the Barbie toymaker's "Inspiring Women" series. Mattel said the doll, made from recycled plastic, honors Goodall's revolutionary research on chimpanzees in Tanzania and her efforts to protect the wild animals.

The 88-year-old Goodall said she was "thrilled" to partner with Barbie.

"My entire career, I've wanted to help inspire kids to be curious and explore the world around them – just like I did...," she said.

The doll is dressed in a light brown shirt and shorts, much like that seen in the many images of Goodall at work in Africa. It also comes with a notebook, binoculars², and another doll modeled on the real chimp¹ Goodall named David Greybeard.

He was the first chimpanzee with which she built trust in Tanzania's Gombe National Park. The relationship permitted her to study the animals extremely closely.

"I wanted a doll to be me even before this idea came up," the 88-year-old scientist told Reuters. She praised Mattel for developing new Barbies that represent a wider number of working women.

"There's all kinds of astronauts and doctors and things like that," she said. She noted³ that many children learn about her in school.

"They'll be thrilled to have the Barbie doll," she said.

Lisa McKnight agrees. She is the Executive⁴ Vice⁵ President and Global Head of Barbie and Dolls for Mattel.

"We hope that this collection" she said, "inspires kids to learn more about green careers, how they can protect the planet, and act out sustainable stories through doll play."

Goodall started her research in what is now Tanzania in the 1960s. She produced massive⁶ amounts of research on wild chimpanzees over the years. She documented how they made and used tools, lived in communities, and showed a high level of emotional understanding.

Mattel's Barbie division has teamed up with the nonprofit Jane Goodall Institute to support several projects centered on ecology-related careers. The company released the Barbie on July 14, World Chimpanzee Day. The day also marked the 62nd anniversary of Goodall's arrival at Gombe.

Goodall wants to teach children that if they want to have a good effect on the changing environment, they must act.

Goodall said, "Hope is about action... Climate change, loss of biodiversity, poverty, unsustainable lifestyles, pollution, you name it. We reach out to others because there are people working on each one of these problems..."

Words in This Story

toy – n. something a child plays with

doll – n. a child's toy in the form of a baby or small person

thrilled – adj. very excited and pleased

inspire – v. to move (someone) to act, create, or feel emotion

curious

binoculars – n. a pair of tubes with glass lenses at the ends that you look through to see things far away

biodiversity – n. the number and kinds of plants and animals that exist in a particular area or in the world generally

unsustainable – adj. not able to last or continue for a long time; not sustainable

1 chimp   

n.黑猩猩

参考例句：

• In fact,the color of gorilla and chimp are light-color.其实大猩猩和黑猩猩的肤色是较为浅的。
• The chimp is the champ.猩猩是冠军。

2 binoculars   

n.双筒望远镜

参考例句：

• He watched the play through his binoculars.他用双筒望远镜看戏。
• If I had binoculars,I could see that comet clearly.如果我有望远镜，我就可以清楚地看见那颗彗星。

3 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

4 executive   

adj.执行的，行政的；n.执行者，行政官，经理

参考例句：

• A good executive usually gets on well with people.一个好的高级管理人员通常与人们相处得很好。
• He is a man of great executive ability.他是个具有极高管理能力的人。

5 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

6 massive   

adj.巨大的，大规模的，大量的，大范围的

参考例句：

• A massive sea search has failed to find any survivors.经过大规模的海上搜救仍未找到幸存者。
• He drank a massive amount of alcohol.他喝了大量的烈酒。