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1、Unit 1 People of achievementPeriod 1 Reading and thinking一、单句语法填空1. He is widely _(acknowledge) as the best player in the world.2. He was _(apparent) much surprised at the news that the amateur athlete beat the professional one who ranked top ten.3. He insist on _(give) every detail of the case. 4.

2、The key to success as a romantic _( novel) is absolute belief in your story.5. He tried boiling fresh wormwood, and _(use) the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria.6. I saw leaves moving_(gentle) in the breeze.7. In the war, they narrowly avoided_(defeat) by the enemy.8. Tu Youyous research le

3、d to the discovery of artemisinin, _crucial new treatment for malaria. 9. Upon _(arrive), he hugge my uncle and tried to give him courage.10. They did an experiment and compared the physical _(property) of the two substances.二、 单句改错1. Artemisinin is thought to save 100,000 life a year in Africa alon

4、e.2. Boiled the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medical properties.3. We talked about music, and food, and holiday destinations, and gradual established a kinship.4. On October 6, Tu Youyou was awarded with the Nobel Prize.5. They will send in trained nurses evaluate the needs of the individ

5、ual patient.三、语法填空TU Youyou, 84, 1 (honor) with the Nobel Prize in Physiology (生理学) or Medicine on Oct 5. She was 2 first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science. Tu shared the prize 3 the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi mura of Japan. Tu is a researcher at the China Academy of Tradi

6、tional Chinese Medicine. She was honored for 4 (develop) artemisinin , “a new drug therapy against malaria” 5 has saved millions of lives worldwide, 6 (especial) in developing countries, the Nobel Assembly said on its website. Tu and her colleagues 7 (join) a government project to find a new malaria

7、 drug in the late 1960s. They made 380 herbal extracts from 2,000 recipes from traditional Chinese 8 (medicine) books. In 1971, after more than 190 9 (fail), Tus team finally found an extract that was 100 percent effective against the malaria parasites (寄生虫) artemisinin.“The discovery of artemisinin

8、 is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine. Its the collective achievement of the research team. 10 (win) the prize is an honor for Chinas science and traditional Chinese medicine,” Tu told Xinhua.四、阅读理解NATURE has many ways of reminding us who is in charge. Her most deadly weapons bacte

9、ria, viruses, and parasites (寄生虫) claim millions of lives every year. But thanks to the hard work of great scientists, mankind could turn nature against itself. And it is for exactly this sort of work that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine o

10、n Oct 5. u Half of the prize was awarded to the Irish William Campbell and the Japanese Satoshi mura for discovering avermectin (阿维菌素), a drug that kills the parasitic worms that cause river blindness and lymphatic filariasis (象皮病). Chinese scientist Tu Youyou shared the other half of the prize for

11、developing Artemisinin , a drug that helps kill the parasite that causes malaria. mura is a microbiologist by training. He studied Streptomyces bacteria to find compounds (化合物) that work against harmful microbes (微生物). Campbell, working in the US, took bacteria found by mura and took out avermectin,

12、 which is effective against parasites in farm animals. An improved type of avermectin was later produced for humans, which greatly reduced the cases of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Avermectin comes from bacteria, but artemisinin comes from plants. Its discovery was the result of Project

13、 523, a Chinese government project to find a new malaria drug in the late 1960s. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by parasites, which attack red blood cells, causing fever, and sometimes, brain damage and death. Tu and her team made 380 herbal extracts from 2,000 recipes from traditional C

14、hinese medical books. In 1971, after more than 190 failures, Tus team finally found an extract that was 100 percent effective against malaria parasites. It was called qinghaosu, later renamed artemisinin. In 2001, the World Health Organization named artemisinin the first choice in the treatment of m

15、alaria. Millions of people are still troubled by infections caused by parasites. But the WHO said that by 2013, malaria deaths had fallen by 47 percent compared with 2000. Similarly, river blindness used to be one of the leading causes of preventable blindness. These days, doctors are talking about

16、chances of wiping the disease off Earth. All of these achievements would not be possible at all without the drugs that Campbell, mura and Tu helped to discover.1. The drug Tu Youyou developed, artemisinin, has proven effective in treating _.A. river blindness B. malariaC. lymphatic filariasis D. inf

17、ections caused by Streptomyces bacteria2. Avermectin, discovered by Campbell and mura, comes from _. A. bacteria B. plants C. farm animals D. ocean animals3. Which of the following is TRUE about the discovery of artemisinin? A. It took Tu and her team about 10 years to discover artemisinin. B. Tu and her team achieved success after about 380 failures. C. Artemisinin has saved millions of peoples lives since its discovery. D. Artemisinin was discovered thanks to the efforts of scientists from at home and abroad.