人教版选择性必修第一册 UNIT 1 Reading 课文翻译

UNIT 1 Reading and Thinking TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE 6 October 2015 This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a crucial new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to improved health for millions of people. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600, 000 die from it. Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone. 屠呦呦获诺贝尔奖 2015年10月6日 今年的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予了屠呦呦(共同获奖者)，她的研究导致了青蒿素的发现。这是一种治疗疟疾的关键新药物。青蒿素挽救了数十万人的生命，改善了数百万人的健康。全世界每年有2亿多人罹患疟疾，约60万人死于疟疾。青蒿素已成为治疗疟疾的重要组成部分，据信仅在非洲每年就能挽救10万人的 生命。 Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from P