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Unit 4 Scientists who changed the world
Grammar and usage
Verb-ed forms as attributives,
adverbials and object complements
Grammar and usage
1. Tu Youyou has become the first female scientist of the People’s
Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize, awarded for her
contribution to the fight against malaria, one of the deadliest
diseases in human history.
2. To speed up the process and ensure its safety, Tu and her team
volunteered to test qinghao extract on themselves first.
to-infinitive as attributive
to-infinitive as adverbial of purpose
Find to-infinitives and figure out their functions.
Lead-in
1. She completed further training courses in traditional Chinese
medicine, acquiring a broad knowledge of both traditional Chinese
medicine and Western medicine.
2. When there was no research equipment, they had to extract herbs
using household water containers.
3. Perhaps the next generation of scientists, drawing on the wisdom of
tradition