人教版(新教材)高中英語選修1Unit 1 People of Achievement課時作業(yè)4：Reading and thinking

1、Unit 1 People of Achievement Reading and thinking 一、單詞拼寫. be（極其重要的）to ones life.（學術的）career.（客觀的）fact. a（堅定的）and patient scientist. a（至關重要的）new treatment. traditional（植物學的）treatments.（有區(qū)別的）features from.（分析）the medical texts.（科學的）research.（評價）the result of the experiment.（煮開）the water. their medical

2、（特征）.叩pro val（得到認可）.（成認失?。?opposite（明顯地相反）二、課文概要填空Tu Youyou （被授予）the prize for her research which （導致）the discovery of artemisinin. Tu was born in Ningbo, and she led a project to discover a new treatment for malaria.（因為）her persistence and inspiration, her team gained an outstanding result which（被認

3、為是）one of the most important contributions to the development of human.三、閱讀理解NATURE has many ways of reminding us who is in charge. Her most deadly weapons - bacteria, viruses, and parasites （寄生蟲）-claim millions of lives every year.But thanks to the hard work of great scientists, mankind could turn

4、nature against itself. And it is for exactly this sort of work that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2015Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5.Half of the prize was awarded to the Irish William Campbell and the Japanese Satoshi Omura for discovering avermectin （阿維菌素）,a drug

5、 that kills the parasitic worms that cause river blindness and lymphatic filariasis （象皮?。?Chinese scientist Tu Youyou shared the other half of the prize for developing Artemisinin , a drug that helps kill the parasite that causes malaria.Omura is a microbiologist by training. He studied Streptomyces

6、 bacteria to find compounds （化合物）that work against harmful microbes （微生物）.Campbell, working in the US, took bacteria found by Omura and took out avermectin, which is effective against parasites in farm animals. An improved type of avermectin was later produced for humans, which greatly reduced the c

7、ases of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.Avermectin comes from bacteria, but artemisinin comes from plants. Its discovery was the result of Project 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 at

8、tack 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 Chinese medical books. In 1971, after more than 190 failures, Tus team finally found an extract that was 100 percent effective against malaria para

9、sites. It was called qinghaosu, later renamed artemisinin. In 2001, the World Health Organization named artemisinin the first choice in the treatment of malaria.Millions of people are still troubled by infections caused by parasites. But the WHO said that by 2013, malaria deaths had fallen by 47 per

10、cent compared with 2000. Similarly, river blindness used to be one of the leading causes of preventable blindness. These days, doctors are talking about chances of wiping the disease off Earth. All of these achievements would not be possible at all without the drugs that Campbell, Omura and Tu helpe

11、d to discover.The drug Tu Youyou developed, artemisinin, has proven effective in treating.river blindnessmalarialymphatic filariasisinfections caused by Streptomyces bacteriaAvermectin, discovered by Campbell and Omura, comes from.A. bacteria B. plants C. farm animals D. ocean animalsWhich of the fo

12、llowing is TRUE about the discovery of artemisinin?It took Tu and her team about 10 years to discover artemisinin.Tu and her team achieved success after about 380 failures.Artemisinin has saved millions of peoples lives since its discovery.Artemisinin was discovered thanks to the efforts of scientis

13、ts from at home and abroad.愿答案X K解析答一、單詞拼寫1 .vital 2.academic 3.objective 4 mitted 5.crucial 6.botanical 7.distinct8.analyse9.scientific lO.perties 13.obtain14.acknowledge defeat15.apparently二、課文概要填空was awarded; led to; because of; was regarded as三、閱讀理解K答案BK解 析 H 根據(jù)第三段最后一句可知。Chinese scientist Tu Youyou shared the other half of the prize for developing Artemisinin, a drug that helps kill the parasite that causes malaria.R答案1AK