Tu Youyou, born in December, 1930, is a Chinese scientist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (青蒿素) used to treat malaria (疟疾), which has saved millions of lives. For her work, Tu received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Scientists worldwide had tried over 240, 000 medicines to treat malaria without success. In 1969, Tu Youyou, then 39 years old, decided to turn to traditional Chinese herbs(草药) for possible solutions. She looked into the Chinese medical classics in history, visiting traditional Chinese doctors all over the country on her own. She gathered her findings in a notebook, in which she recorded 640 methods of treating malaria. She and her team also experimented with over 2, 000 traditional Chinese herbs.
During this time, her husband was forced to work in the countryside, and their young daughter had to take care of herself in Beijing.
Years of research all came down to one type of herb named qinghao. The animal tests showed it was completely effective in mice and monkeys, So Tu volunteered to be the first human subject. “As head of this research group, I had the responsibility’ she said. It was safe with, her; so she continued to try it out with more human patients.
In 2007, her office was in an old apartment building in Beijing. Before 2011, Tu Youyou had been described as “almost completely forgotten by people1”, Yet in 2015, the Nobel Prize committee said her discoveries had given the world powerful new ways to fight a powerful disease which affected hundreds of millions of people every year. In terms of improving human health and reducing suffering, Mrs. Tu’s contribution is beyond words.
1.How did Tu Youyou find qinghao as a treatment?
A. By testing it on children. B. By researching for years.
C. By reading foreign books. C. By asking malaria patients.
2.What does the underlined word “effective” mean in Paragraph 4?
A. Successful. B. Useless. C. Unclear. D. Normal
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph about Mrs. Tu?
A. She couldn’t afford an apartment in Beijing.
B. She didn’t want her findings to be known.
C. She didn’t care much, for fame while researching.
D. She wasn’t able to describe her findings dearly
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Tu Youyou, born in December, 1930, is a Chinese scientist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (青蒿素) used to treat malaria (疟疾), which has saved millions of lives. For her work, Tu received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Scientists worldwide had tried over 240, 000 medicines to treat malaria without success. In 1969, Tu Youyou, then 39 years old, decided to turn to traditional Chinese herbs(草药) for possible solutions. She looked into the Chinese medical classics in history, visiting traditional Chinese doctors all over the country on her own. She gathered her findings in a notebook, in which she recorded 640 methods of treating malaria. She and her team also experimented with over 2, 000 traditional Chinese herbs.
During this time, her husband was forced to work in the countryside, and their young daughter had to take care of herself in Beijing.
Years of research all came down to one type of herb named qinghao. The animal tests showed it was completely effective in mice and monkeys, So Tu volunteered to be the first human subject. “As head of this research group, I had the responsibility’ she said. It was safe with, her; so she continued to try it out with more human patients.
In 2007, her office was in an old apartment building in Beijing. Before 2011, Tu Youyou had been described as “almost completely forgotten by people1”, Yet in 2015, the Nobel Prize committee said her discoveries had given the world powerful new ways to fight a powerful disease which affected hundreds of millions of people every year. In terms of improving human health and reducing suffering, Mrs. Tu’s contribution is beyond words.
1.How did Tu Youyou find qinghao as a treatment?
A. By testing it on children. B. By researching for years.
C. By reading foreign books. C. By asking malaria patients.
2.What does the underlined word “effective” mean in Paragraph 4?
A. Successful. B. Useless. C. Unclear. D. Normal
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph about Mrs. Tu?
A. She couldn’t afford an apartment in Beijing.
B. She didn’t want her findings to be known.
C. She didn’t care much, for fame while researching.
D. She wasn’t able to describe her findings dearly
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Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old female scientist, became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in science on Oct 5. Before that, she ever won the 2011 Lasker Award for finding out artemisinin (Qinghaosu), which saved millions of lives. She was thankful for the Lasker prize, but said, “It is just a scientist’ duty. I will go on fighting for the health of all humans.”
Tu kept her work in the 1960s and 1970s. In that age, Malaria could took away people’s health. Scientists all over the world had already tried over 240 000 times but failed. Tu Youyou, a member of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, began to study Chinese herbs.
Before 2011, people didn’t know Tu very much. Many friends played jokes with her “the Professor of Three None's” : no degree, no study experience abroad, not a member of any Chinese national colleges. But she is hard-working. She read a lot of traditional Chinese medicine books and did a lot of researches on the disease.
In February, 2012, Tu was named National Outstanding Females (One of the Ten) Tu is now a model of Chinese medical workers.
1.Artemisinin is used to ________.
A. make medicine B. make food
C. get award D. do the experiment
2. In the 1960s and 1970s ____ could find ways to stop the Malaria.
A. Scientists in China
B. no scientist
C. Scientists all over the world
D. only Tu Youyou
3.Tu Youyou became very famous ____________.
A. in the 1960s B. in 1970
C. before 2011 D. after 2012
4.From Tu Youyou’s story, we know that she is a ___________ woman.
A. friendly B. kind
C. clever D. hard-working
5.The underlined word in paragraph2 probably means a kind of _____
A. herb B. medicine
C. disease D. virus
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Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old female（女性）scientist, became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in science on Oct 5. Before that, she ever won the 2011 Lasker Award for finding out artemisinin (Qinghaosu), which saved millions of lives. She was grateful（感激的）for the Lasker prize, but said, “It is just a scientist’ duty. I will go on fighting for the health of all humans.”
Tu kept her work in the 1960s and 1970s. In that age, Malaria (疟疾) could took away people’s health. Scientists all over the world had already tried over 240, 000 times but failed. Tu Youyou, a member of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, began to study Chinese herbs.
Before 2011, people didn’t know Tu very much. Many friends played jokes with her “the Professor of Three None's” : no degree（学位）, no study experience abroad, not a member of any Chinese national colleges. But she is hard-working. She read a lot of traditional Chinese medicine books and did a lot of researches on the disease.
In February, 2012, Tu was named National Outstanding Females (One of the Ten) Tu is now a model of Chinese medical workers.
1.Artemisinin is used to ________.
A. make medicine B. make food
C. get award D. do the experiment
2.In the 1960s and 1970s ________ could find ways to stop the Malaria.
A. Scientists in China B. only Tu Youyou
C. Scientists all over the world D. no scientist
3.Tu Youyou became very famous ____________.
A. in the 1960s B. in 1970
C. before 2011 D. after 2012
4.From Tu Youyou’s story, we know that she is a ___________ woman.
A. friendly B. kind C. clever D. hard-working
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单词拼写
1.Tu Youyou, a Chinese woman scientist, was _______(授予) the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery.
2.The ____________(起源) of this custom sounds very funny.
3.Roast duck in his restaurant is quite popular with c_______, for it is very delicious.
4.Natural resources on the earth are very l , so we should make good use of them and protect them.
5. Henry Adams was _______ (漫步) down the pavement in London when a servant invited him to a big house.
6.I was caught in the traffic jam after work. As a result, I missed the first two ______(场) of the play.
7.We didn’t win the game this time and we all think it was Bill’s ____________(过错).
8.Only after we answered the guard’s questions were we p_______to enter the building.
9.To their surprise, the medicine produced a ____________(猛烈的) reaction.
10.Our school bus c_______into a tree yesterday and luckily none was seriously injured.
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The famous scientist grow up________ he was born and in 1930 he came to Shanghai.
A．when B．in which C．where D．wherever
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Robert Jarvik, born on May 11, 1946 in Michigan and raised in Stamford, is a medical scientist and researcher, who played an important role in the invention of the artificial heart. He was interested in medicine from a young age. He watched his father perform operations and gained a patent (专利权) for a machine applied in the medical operation before he graduated from high school.
Jarvik attended Syracuse University and considered a career in art. When his father developed heart disease suddenly, he decided then to work on a medical career. He applied to medical schools, but was not admitted to any schools in the US. Before long, he was admitted to the medical school in Italy and stayed there for two years. He returned to get a degree in medicine from New York University in 1971.
After working for a period of time, Jarvik got a job in the organ transplant (器官移植) program at the University of Utah in 1972. He worked with the director of the program, Willem Kolff, who invented the kidney dialysis (肾透析) machine.
By the time Jarvik came to the University of Utah, the organ program had already developed the primary artificial heart. He improved it by creating a diaphragm (横膈膜), which solved many issues with the heart. Eventually, he created the first artificial heart in 1981, the Jarvik-7, to be placed in a human patient, which was considered one of the most important inventions in human history.
Barney Clark, a retired dentist suffering from serious heart disease, received the Jarvik-7 transplant on December 2, 1982. He lived for 112 days after the operation, but the transplant was considered a success. Though receiving criticism for the risk referred to transplant an artificial heart, the Jarvik-7 still became very important for patients who were waiting for a heart. In 1987, Jarvik moved to New York City and formed Jarvik Research Inc. He began developing a new heart — the Jarvik 2000. This smaller machine fits inside a patient’s heart rather than replacing the entire organ.
1.What method does the writer use to develop the passage?
A.By discussing research experiments.
B.By following the natural time order.
C.By presenting some research results.
D.By comparing opinions from different fields.
2.The underlined word “issues” in Paragraph 4 probably means “________”.
A.items B.incidents
C.problems D.debates
3.Which of the following incidents made Robert Jarvik determine his life-long career?
A.His father developed heart disease suddenly.
B.He received a patent for the medical operation.
C.He took part in the organ program at the University of Utah.
D.He was refused to be admitted to any medical school in the US.
4.What is the greatest achievement for Robert Jarvik as a medical scientist?
A.He invented the kidney dialysis machine.
B.He created the first artificial heart in 1981.
C.He created a diaphragm to fit inside a patient’s heart.
D.He did the first heart transplant operation for a heart patient.
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On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisinin, has been awarded China's Medal of the Republic. The medal is the country's highest honor for outstanding figures that have made great contributions to the construction and the development of the P.R.C.
Tu Youyou, born in 1930, has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old’s route to the honor has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the “three nos” winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she’s never worked overseas. In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was decimating Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit “Mission 523” was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of “Mission 523”.
“Mission 523” read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malaria drug, more than 240,000 compounds(化合物)around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood(青蒿), which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 A.D. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.
After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. “In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion”. One former colleague, Lianda Li, says Ms. Tu is “unsociable and quite straightforward”, adding that “if she disagrees with something, she will say it.”
Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a “tough and stubborn woman”. Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.
1.According to Paragraph 2, we can learn that .
A.Tu is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
B.Tu has a medical degree
C.Tu’s road to success is not traditional
D.Tu discovered a cure for malaria
2.The underlined word “decimating” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by .
A.encouraging B.killing
C.annoying D.benefiting
3.Which of the following statements is true?
A.Tu first invented the idea of using sweet wormwood as a cure.
B.Tu was inspired by medical textbooks published in northern Vietnam.
C.The compound needs to be heated to the boiling point to be effective.
D.Over 240,000 compounds were proved ineffective before Tu’s search.
4.Tu Youyou can be best described as a person.
A.devoted and stubborn B.straightforward and mean
C.considerate and tough D.sociable and generous
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I turned over the chinese vase by accident while I cleaned the desk and now it is _________.
A. in turn B. in pieces C. in ruins D. in trouble
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Tu Youyou was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 5th, 2015. She was the first Chinese citizen 1.(earn) a Nobel Prize in science. Tu shared the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan.
Tu is a researcher at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences now. She was given the prize 2. developing artemisinin（青蒿素）--- 3. new drug method against malaria, with 4. millions of lives worldwide have been saved 5.(incredible).
Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug in the late 1960s. 6. nearly two hundred failures Tu's team experienced, they finally found an extract（提取物） that was 100% effective against malaria in 1971. In 2001, artemisinin 7.(make) the first choice in the treatment of malaria by the World Health Organization.
It was considered by some foreign scientists that 8. Tu discovered would definitely bring great reputation for herself. However, Tu said, "The discovery of artemisinin itself is a gift to human from traditional Chinese medicine. It's the 9.(achieve) of the research team. " As China Daily has reported, 10.(win) the prize is an honour for Chinese science and medicine.
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Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Swift’s family ran a farm. “I had her sitting on a small horse when she was nine months old,” said Swift's mother. “If my dream had gone well, she’d be in a horse show right now.” The only obvious forerunner (先驱) of Swift's musical talent was her grandmother, an opera singer.
That talent showed itself early: when the family went to see a Disney musical film, Swift would come out of the theater singing all the songs correctly. At the age of 11, she sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a Philadelphia 76ers game. The experiences during her pre-teen years encouraged the creativity to go with Swift’s talent. As a child, she attended the academically competitive Wyndcroft School in Pottstown, but then switched to public schools in Wyomissing. Although it was her hometown, she didn’t know any of her classmates, and she was terrified. Swift began to understand the storytelling feature of country songs, and put her feelings into songs of her own.
One of her future hits, “The Outside”, was written when she was only 12. “I wrote that about the scariest feeling I’ve ever felt: going to school, looking at those faces, and not knowing who you’re gonna talk to that day,” she said. “In the music, I could never feel the kind of rejection (拒绝) that I felt in middle school.” Swift's parents quickly realized that they had someone special on their hands. They sold their farm when she was 13 and moved the family to Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Swift had the ability, above all, to put feelings into words with accuracy (准确) far beyond her years. In “Our Song” she wrote, “Our song is the slamming screen door, going out late, tapping on your window.” In the summer of 2006, “Tim McGraw” came out, and almost from the beginning the 16-year-old Taylor Swift was a star.
1.When she was in her childhood, Taylor Swift ________.
A. dreamed of being a horse rider
B. was expected to help on the farm
C. showed her talent for music early
D. learned singing from her grandmother
2.Which of the following can best describe Swift’s school days in Wyomissing?
A. Difficult B. Helpful
C. Competitive D. Satisfying
3.Taylor Swift’s parents moved the family to Hendersonville ________.
A. when she was twelve years old.
B. after “The Outside” became a hit.
C. because she was rejected in school.
D. after they realized her musical talent.
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A. Swift sang for a Disney movie at a young age.
B. “The Outside” came out when Swift was only 12.
C. Life in Wyndcroft School encouraged Swift's creativity.
D. She tells her stories in her music.
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