Unit 1 People of Achievement 课文语法填空-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Unit 1 People Of Achievement

Reading and thinking

TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE

6 October 2015

This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co-winner),   1   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   2   (save) 100,000 lives a year in Africa alone.

Tu Youyou,   3   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   4   (choose). In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria   5   (patient). In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient

Chinese medical texts to find   6   (tradition) botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants for their medical properties. From their research, they discovered and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical treatments that showed promise in the fight   7   malaria.

One medical text from the fourth century suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tub’s team tested a collection of dried wormwood leaves but found no effect. They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either. Their project got stuck. However, Tu Youyou would not acknowledge defeat. She analysed the medical texts again, and by chance, she found one sentence   8   (suggest) a different way to treat the wormwood. She concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medical properties. Using a lower temperature to draw out the extract, she found a substance that worked. After failing more than 190 times, the team finally succeeded in 1971. Tu Youyou and her team members even insisted on testing the medicine on   9   (they) to make sure that it was safe. Later, the medicine   10   (test) on malaria patients, most of   11   recovered. This medicine, which was called artemisinin, soon became a standard treatment for malaria.

According to Tu Youyou, the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort. Upon   12   (hear) that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she said, “The honor is not just mine. There is a team behind me,   13   all the people of my country. This success   14   (prove) the great value of traditional Chinese medicine. It is indeed an honor for China’s scientific research and Chinese medicine to   15   (spread) around the world.”

 

参考答案

1. whose 

2. to save 

3. a 

4. chosen 

5. patients

6. traditional 

7. against 

8. suggesting 

9. themselves 

10. was tested

11. whom 

12. hearing 

13. and