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2016年3月份百题精练（2） 英语试题 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Tu Youyou, the 85-year-old Chinese pharmacologist（药理学家），received the Nobel Prize for medicine in Stockholm on December 10,2015. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel winner in physiology（生理学）or medicine. Also, in 2011, she became the first Chinese person to receive the US-based Lasker Award for clinical medicine. Based on a fourth-century Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) text, together with her team, she managed to get artemisinin【青蒿素）from sweet wormwood through trial and error and developed an important drug that has significantly reduced death rates among patients suffering from malaria. Tu delivered a speech titled Artemisinin is a Gift from TCM to the World. She has urged more research into the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine and called for joint efforts worldwide to fight against malaria and develop more potential uses for TCM, which she called agreat treasure wiffi thousands of years history and empirical knowledge. She said that by combining TCM with modem scientific technologies, more potential can be discovered in searching for new drugs . According to the WHO, more than 240 rrullion people in sub-Saharan Africa have benefited from舭tmisinin, and more than l. 5 nullion lives are estimated to have been saved since 2000 thanks to the drug. Apart from its contribution to the global fight against malaria, TCM played a vital role in the deadly outbreak of SARS across China in 2003. Besides treating viruses, TCM has been most effective in diagnosing diseases, cultivating fitness, treating difficult multisource illneases, and using nonmedicinal methods such as acupuncture (钟刺疗法) and breatlung exercises. However, TCM, which is based on a set of beliefs about human biology, is seldom understood or accepted by the West. Tu s success will bring more recognition and respect for TCM, experts say. The Westem world should