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Unit 1 People of Achievement
—Learning about Language
Build up your vocabulary
Learning Objectives
Grasp the word formation-derivation
Use the topic-related vocabularies and new words in new situation
Review the process of how artemisinin was discovered
Discuss how people can achieve success using words and expressions learnt in this unit.
Match the word with each definition
1. ________ cook something in very hot water
2. ________ relating to plants
3. ________ qualities or characteristics of something
4. ________ a kind of substance that flows freely, such as water or milk
5. _________ physical material that exists
boil
botanical
properties
liquid
substance
boil
botanical
liquid n. 液体
chemical substance
化学物质
substance
n. 物质,主旨
How was artemisinin discovered?
n. 〖C〗特性,特征
Attempt
Research-related Lexis
sweet wormwood
extract
Success
a botanical treatment.
a crucial and vital treatment for malaria
dry dried wormwood leaves
boil sweet wormwood
get the liquid
as medical properties were destroyed
Failure
Re-attempt
Test
use a lower temperature
extract the substance named artemisinin
test the medicine on themselves
test the medicine on malaria patients
crucial adj. 至关重要的;关键性的
近义词积累 ________、 ________ 、_____
vital adj. 必不可少的;极其重要的;充满生机的
significant
essential
major
Guess the meaning of the underlined words
1. The two flowers are quite from one another, so it is easy to make a _________ between them.
2. Scientists need to _________ how the new material stands up to wear and tear to prove how it is.
3. A talented scientist well known for his ___________ to his country, Huang Danian __________himself to his research in geophysics.
4. A: Did you come to any ?
B: Yes, we __________ that by drawing out the extract at a low temperature, we could find the subs