Unit 1 People of achievement. Reading and thinking

Reading
TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
1969， she became the head of the
project in Beijing and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional 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.
2.award
has led to improved health for millions of vt.把…奖给,授予;判给,判定
people. Over 200 million people around worid get malaria each year, and about
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The discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a breakthrough of tropical medicine in the 20th century.
For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Tu Youyou, born in 1930 in Ningbo, has been a pharmacologist at the China Academy of Chinese Medicine Science since 1965, engaging in research of the combination of TCM and WM.
TCM: traditional Chinese medicine WM: western medicine
Lead in Her name is taken from the Book Of Songs（诗经）
Tu Youyou won Nobel Prize for the discovery of Artemisinin(青蒿素).
Personal profile and early work experience.
2. Why did Tu Youyou became the head of the project? A. She went to Hainan at first. B. She graduated from Peking University. C. She was committed and patient. D. It wasn’t showed in the text.
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• Hua Tuo was a renowned physician during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. • The Book of Later Han records Hua Tuo as the first person in China to use anesthesia(麻醉) during surgery. He used a general anesthetic combining wine with an herbal concoction called mafeisan (麻沸散)
TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
para. 3-1
One medical text from the fourth century suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu'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 suggesting a different way to treat the wormwood. she concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medical properties.
vocabulary 5. committed
adj. 尽心尽力的；坚定/信的 6. academy n. 研究院；学会 7. objective adj. 客观的
Question Time TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
1. Summarize the above para.2-1 in one sentence.
Unit 1 People of achievement Reading and thinking
Tu YouYou Awarded Noble Prize
选择性必修一 人教版（2019）
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Can you name some Chinese doctors who used herbs(草药) for treatment in ancient times?
Pre-Reading Questions
Which is more important for making a great discovery，talent or effort?
• We need talent to learn quickly and to think sharply. • We should spare no effort to experiment through trial and error. • Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
para. they discovered and tested 380 distinct 2-2 ancient Chinese medical treatments
that showed promise in the fight against malaria.
vocabulary 8. botanical adj. 植物学的 9. evaluate vt. 评价；评估 10. property n. 性质；特征； 11. distinct
taleU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
This years Nobel Prize for Physiology or
vocabulary
Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou 1. physiology
It took him 37 years to finish the book ，which is considered to be a great contribution to the development of Chinese medicine.
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Can you name a modern scientist who uses artemisinin as a new treatment for malaria?
(co-winner),whose research led to the
discovery of artemisinin, a crucial new
n. 生理学；生理机能
treatment for malaria Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. and
Reading
TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
para. 2-1
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.
crucial
000 die from it, Artemisinin has become a adj. 至关重要的；关键性的
para.1
vital part of the treatment for malaria. and is thought to save 100.000 lives a year in
4.vital
Africa alone.
adj. 必不可少的；极其重要的
Question Time
TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
1. Summarize this paragraph in one sentence.
The significance of Tu’s discovery.
adj. 清晰/楚的；有区别的
Question Time
TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE 1. Summarize the above para.2-2 in one sentence.
Tu’s way to the treatment for malaria.
Reading
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Li Shizhen was a famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty. He wrote a famous book Compendium of Materia Medica(本草纲目), which is a collection of Chinese herbs . It included 2000 Chinese herbs with millions of characters . He visited mountains, tasted different kinds of herbs and even did experiments on himself .