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Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
— Albert Einstein
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Task 1: Match the main ideas with each paragraph.
Fast – reading
B. The honor of the discovery.
Tu’s way to the treatment for malaria.
C. The significance of Tu’s discovery
D. The discovery of the artemisinin.
1 Where would you most likely find this passage?
A. In a blog.
B. In a book.
C. In a letter.
D. In a newspaper.
D
careful – reading
2 Passages like this are most often written in_________and__________
A.the active voice/offer many opinions
B. the first person/talk about feelings
C. both active and passive voices/mostly contain facts
C
3 Which two pieces of information were not included in the passage?
A. A quote from Tu Youyou.
B. The details of how artemisinin was discovered.
C. Tu Youyou's important contributions other than the discovery of artemisinin.
D. Tu Youyou's personal life.
E. Tu Youyou's road to discovering artemisinin.
F. What Tu Youyou was awarded.
G. Why artemisinin is an important discovery.
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D
1930
Tested the medicine on themselves and later on patients. The medicine became a standard treatment for malaria.
1955
Chosen to be the first researchers to discover a new treatment for malaria.
Graduated from Peking University Medical School
1969
Born in Ningbo, China
1971
Became the head of the project in Beijing and decided to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.
1967
2015
Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to save 100,000 lives a year in Africa alone.
1 Why is the discovery of artemisinin important?
①Artemisinin 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 partof the