Unit 4 Scientists Who Changed the World 一轮复习综合练习-2024届高三英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第三册

B3U4 Scientists who changed the world 1.Chinese scientist wins 2015 Nobel Prize Tu Youyou has become the first female scientist of the People’s Republic of China __________( receive) a Nobel Prize, awarded for her contribution to the fight against malaria, one of the __________ (dead) diseases in human history. Thanks to her discovery of qinghaosu, malaria patients all over the world now have had a greatly _______(increase) chance of _______ (survive). Born in 1930, in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Tu studied medicine at university in Beijing between 1951 and 1955. After graduation, she worked at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She completed further training courses in traditional Chinese medicine, __________ (acquire) a broad knowledge of both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. 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 ________ the disease. She collected over 2,000 traditional Chinese medical recipes for malaria treatment and made hundreds of extracts from different herbs. When they failed to produce any __________ (promise) results, Tu__________(refer) to the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine again. ________(inspire) by an over 1,600-year-old text about preparing qinghao extract with cold water, Tu redesigned the experiments and tried extracting the herb __________ a low temperature in order not to damage its effective part. _________ 4 October 1971, after 190 failures, she succeeded in__________(make) qinghao extract that could treat malaria in mice. However, it was hard to produce enough qinghao extract for large trials because research resources_______________ (limit). Tu and her team managed to find ____________(solve) to the problem. When there was no research equipment, they had to extract herbs ________(use) household water containers. They worked day and night and their health began to suffer becaus