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Unit 4
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Welcome to the unit
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
------Irving Langmuir
科学家的动机主要是好奇心和对真理的渴望。
——欧文·朗谬尔
Welcome to the unit
In this unit,you are going to:
read a news report on a Chinese Nobel Prize winner;
write a plan for the school Science Festival;
read a lecture transcript about the value of science.
make a fact file about a scientist.
在本单元中,你将:
读一篇关于一位中国诺贝尔奖得主的新闻报道;
为学校科学节写计划;
阅读一篇关于科学价值的演讲文稿。
制作一份关于一位科学家的事实档案。
Reading
Tu Youyou has become the first femal scientist of the People’s Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize,awared for her contribution to the fight against malaria,one of the dealiest diseases in human history.
屠呦呦成为中华人民共和国首位获得诺贝尔奖的女科学家,以表彰她在抗击疟疾方面的贡献。疟疾是人类历史上最致命的疾病之一。
People’s Republic of China中华人民共和国
contribute to:有助于;促成
Reading
Thanks to her discovery of qinghaosu,malaria patients all over the world now have had a greatly increased chance of survival.
由于她发现了青蒿素,世界各地的疟疾患者的生存机会大大增加了。
thanks to 多亏了
all over the world全世界
have a chance to do sth 有机会做某事
Reading
Born in 1930,in Ningbo,Zhejiang Province,Tu studied medicine at univeristy in Beijing between 1951 and 1955.
After graduation,she worked at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
屠于1930年出生于浙江宁波,1951年至1955年在北京大学学医。
毕业后,她在中国中医科学院工作。
take medicine吃药
Reading
She completed further training courses in traditional Chinese medicine,acquiring a broad knowledge of both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.
她完成了进一步的中医培训课程,获得了广泛的中医和西医知识。
a broad knowledge of广泛的只是
both表示两者
Reading
Tu’s education was soon to prove very useful.
In the 1960s,many people were dying of malaria,and in 1969 Tu became head of a team that intended to find a cure for the disease.
屠的教育很快被证明是非常有用的。
在20世纪60年代,许多人死于疟疾,屠在1969年成为一个团队的负责人,旨在找到治疗这种疾病的方法。
prove to be证明是
die of 死于
Reading
intend to do sth 打算做某事
plan to do sth
She collected over 2,000 traditional Chinese medical recipes for malaria treatment and made hundreds of extra