Unit 1 Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Unit 1 People of Achievement Reading and Thinking Part One Unit 1 People of Achievement Look and discuss: 1.Who is the woman in the photo? 2.What is happening in this photo? 3.What more can you find in this photo? Think about these questions before reading the text. Read and Think 1. Where can you most likely find this passage? 2. From which perspective did the passage develop? 3. How is the passage organized? This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a crucial new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin 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 part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone. Tu YouYou Awarded Nobel Prize Find descriptive words in the passage. While reading, pay attention to the BOLD words. You will see the English explanations on the left side. We hope that you can have a better understanding of them. Definition crucial: extremely important, because everything else depends on it vital: extremely important and necessary for something to succeed or exist  Reading Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955. After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen. In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional botanical t