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2021-2022学年度第43期总第873期 (6版)

Ancient wisdom saves lives (Page 6)

 

I. Read the text and answer the questions.

1. When and how did Tu create the treatment?

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2. What problem did Tu encounter? What was the solution?

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3. How did Tu prove the effectiveness of the treatment?

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4. What kind of person do you think Tu is?

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II. Guess the Chinese meaning of the following expressions.

1. a deadly problem               ________________

2. effective                           ________________

3. mark                   ________________

4. a unique approach                ________________

5. classical Chinese medicine ________________

6. It turned out that …      ________________

7. take the credit            ________________

 

III. Fill in the blanks with the proper form.

1. Gradually, qinghaosu became the first-line treatment for malaria _________ (recommend) by the World Health Organization (WHO), _________ (save) millions of lives around the world.

2. He threw the toy on the ground, _________ (break) it into pieces.

3. The car was caught in the traffic jam, thus _________ (cause) the delay.

 

参考答案：

I. 1. In 1969, Tu became the director of a national project to develop a drug against malaria. Her team took a unique approach. They studied books about classical Chinese medicine. After reading more than 2,000 old remedies, Tu and her team collected over 600 plants and listed almost 380 possible remedies for malaria. One remedy, which is 1,600 years old, uses sweet wormwood as a treatment. Tu found it effective.

2. Tu found sweet wormwood effective and tried to extract the qinghaosu from it in order to make a drug. The extraction failed at first.

She used a low-temperature method to extract the qinghaosu and finally succeeded in 1972.

3. After her team showed that qinghaosu could treat malaria in mice and monkeys, Tu and two of her colleagues volunteered to test the drug on themselves before testing on human patients. It turned out that qinghaosu was safe and all patients in the test recovered.

4. smart, persistent, responsible, committed, modest ...  

II. 1. 致命的问题

2. 有效的

3. 标志

4. 独特的方法

5. 传统中医

6. 结果是

7. 居功

III. 1. recommended; saving

2. breaking

3. causing

 

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