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选择性必修一Unit1
“TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE”
Think and discuss
Discuss the following questions with your partner.
1.What do you know about the Nobel Prize?
2.Which Nobel Prize winner do you admire most?Why?
Understand the text
1.Fill in the blanks to complete the key information about Tu Youyou.
Personal information
Place of birth:1.----_------
Date of birth:2._
Education
1955:Graduated from 3.
Work experiences
1955:Worked at 4._
in Beijing
1967:Was chosen to be one of the first researchers to discover 5.__
1969:Became the head of the project in Beijing and tried to find 6.
from
ancient Chinese medical texts
1971:Succeeded in finding the medicine artemisinin,a standard treatment for malaria Award
2015:
Won the Nobel Prize for 7.___
for the discovery of artemisinin
ll.Put the following statements about the process of discovering artemisinin into the correct
order.
a.Tu's team tested dried wormwood leaves but found no effect.
b.Tu concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood destroyed its medical properties.
c.One medical text suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever.
d.Tu used a lower temperature to draw out the extract and found a substance that worked.
e.They tried boiling fresh wormwood for the liquid to treat malaria,but this didn't work.
f.They tested the medicine on malaria patients.
g.Tu analysed the medical texts again and found a different way to treat the wormwood.
h.Artemisinin became a standard treatment for malaria.
i.Tu's team tested the medicine on themselves.
Ill.Match Tu Youyou's qualities with examples.
Examples
TuYouyou's
qualities
1.Modest(谦虚的)
A.Their project got stuck.However,Tu Youyou would not
acknowledge defeat.
2.Creative
B.The honour is not just mine.There is a team behind me,and all the
people of my country.
3.Brave and selfless
C.Using a lower temperature to draw out the extract,she found a
substance that worked.
4.Determined
D.Tu Youyou and her team members even insisted on testing the
medicine on themselves to make