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Unit 1 People of achievement
Period 1 Reading and thinking
一、单句语法填空
1. He is widely _____________(acknowledge) as the best player in the world.
2. He was ________________(apparent) much surprised at the news that the amateur athlete beat the
professional one who ranked top ten.
3. He insist on _____________(give) every detail of the case.
4. The key to success as a romantic _____________( novel) is absolute belief in your story.
5. He tried boiling fresh wormwood, and _________(use) the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria.
6. I saw leaves moving__________(gentle) in the breeze.
7. In the war, they narrowly avoided____________(defeat) by the enemy.
8. Tu Youyou’s research led to the discovery of artemisinin, ____crucial new treatment for
malaria.
9. Upon ________(arrive), he hugge my uncle and tried to give him courage.
10. They did an experiment and compared the physical ________(property) of the two substances.
二、 单句改错
1. Artemisinin is thought to save 100,000 life a year in Africa alone.
2. Boiled the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medical properties.
3. We talked about music, and food, and holiday destinations, and gradual established a kinship.
4. On October 6, Tu Youyou was awarded with the Nobel Prize.
5. They will send in trained nurses evaluate the needs of the individual patient.
三、语法填空
TU Youyou, 84, 1 (honor) with the Nobel Prize in Physiology (生理学) or Medicine on
Oct 5. She was 2 first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science. Tu shared the prize 3
the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura of Japan.
Tu is a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was honored for 4
(develop) artemisinin , “a new drug therapy against malaria” 5 has saved millions of lives worldwide,
6 (especial) in developing countries, the Nobel Assembly said on its website.
Tu and her colleagues 7 (join) a government project to find a new malaria drug in the late 1960s.
They made 380 herbal extracts from 2,000 recipes from traditional Chinese 8 (medicine) books. In
1971, after more than 190 9 (fail), Tu’s team finally found an extract that was 100 percent effective
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“The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine. It’s the
collective achievement of the research team. 10 (win) the prize is an honor for China’s science and
traditional Chinese medicine,” Tu told Xinhua.
四、阅读理解
NATURE has many ways of reminding us who is in charge. Her most deadly weapons – bacteria,
viruses, and parasites (寄生虫) – claim millions of lives every year.
But thanks to the hard work of great scientists, mankind could turn nature against itself. And it is for
exactly this sort of work that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5.
Half of the prize was awarded to the Irish William Campbell and the Japanese Satoshi Ōmura for
discovering avermectin (阿维菌素), a drug that kills the parasitic worms that cause river blindness and
lymphatic filariasis (象皮病). Chinese scientist Tu Youyou shared the other half of the prize for developing
Artemisinin , a drug that helps kill the parasite that causes malaria.
Ōmura is a microbiologist by training. He studied Streptomyces bacteria to find compounds (化合物)
that work against harmful microbes (微生物). Campbell, working in the US, took bacteria found by Ōmura
and took out avermectin, which is effective against parasites in farm animals. An improved type of
avermectin was later produced for humans, which greatly reduced the cases of river blindness and
lymphatic filariasis.
Avermectin comes from bacteria, but artemisinin comes from plants. Its discovery was the result of
Project 523, a Chinese government project to find a new malaria drug in the late 1960s.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by parasites, which attack red blood cells, causing fever,
and sometimes, brain damage and death. Tu and her team made 380 herbal extracts from 2,000 recipes
from traditional Chinese medical books. In 1971, after more than 190 failures, Tu’s team finally found an
extract that was 100 percent effective against malaria parasites. It was called qinghaosu, later renamed
artemisinin. In 2001, the World Health Organization named artemisinin the first choice in the treatment of
malaria.
Millions of people are still troubled by infections caused by parasites. But the WHO said that by 2013,
malaria deaths had fallen by 47 percent compared with 2000. Similarly, river blindness used to be one of
the leading causes of preventable blindness. These days, doctors are talking about chances of wiping the
disease off Earth. All of these achievements would not be possible at all without the drugs that Campbell,
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1. The drug Tu Youyou developed, artemisinin, has proven effective in treating ______.
A. river blindness
B. malaria
C. lymphatic filariasis
D. infections caused by Streptomyces bacteria
2. Avermectin, discovered by Campbell and Ōmura, comes from ______.
A. bacteria B. plants C. farm animals D. ocean animals
3. Which of the following is TRUE about the discovery of artemisinin?
A. It took Tu and her team about 10 years to discover artemisinin.
B. Tu and her team achieved success after about 380 failures.
C. Artemisinin has saved millions of people’s lives since its discovery.
D. Artemisinin was discovered thanks to the efforts of scientists from at home and abroad.
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