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Tu YouYou Awarded Noble Prize
Unit1 People of achievement
Period 1 Reading and thinking
Can you name some Chinese doctors who used herbs for treatment in ancient times?
Tu Youyou, born in 1930 in Ningbo, has been a pharmacologist at the China Academy of Chinese Medicine Science since 1965, engaging in research of the combination of TCM and WM.
TCM: traditional Chinese medicine
WM: western medicine
Can you name a modern scientist who uses artemisinin as a new treatment for malaria?
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呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿。
—《诗经.小雅.鹿鸣》
Her name is taken from the Book Of Songs(诗经)
Tu Youyou won Nobel Prize for the discovery of Artemisinin(青蒿素).
The discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a breakthrough of tropical medicine in the 20th century.
For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Tu Youyou received her 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Sweden.
Reading
Tu Youyou Awarded
Nobel Prize
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Para. 3
Para.2
Para.4
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
2. 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.
Task 2: Choose the correct answers.
1930
Tested the medicine on themselves and later on patients. The medicine became a standard treatment for malaria.
1955
Chosen to be the first re