(牛津译林版选修7)Unit 2《Fit for life 》课件Reading2概要1.ppt

Aspirin has saved many people’s lives by reducing fever and helping stop p____. Lawrence Craven introduced the idea that aspirin could reduce the r____ of heart attacks by thinning blood. In 1971, Smith and Willis p____ that aspirin was a blood-thinning medicine and a study showed that a chemical in aspirin could prevent a s____. In 2003, a Chinese doctor found that this chemical could reduce blood s____ levels and help people with diabetes. Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, is c________ to be one of the most important medicines in contemporary s_____. Howard Florey and Ernst Chain managed to use new chemical t________ o purify it to be a medicine. Due to its widespread use, many lives were saved during World War II. Penicillin is also used to treat other illnesses i______ pneumonia. In 1945, Fleming, Florey and Chain s_____ the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work. (1) Choose the correct answer. 1. If you open up any medicine cupboard in the world, there is a high probability _____ you will find aspirin and penicillin. A. which B. what C. that D. when 2. Was it in 1897 _____ a European chemist called Dr Felix Hoffmann produced acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) from some other chemicals to make a medicine for his father? A. when B. which C. that D. in which 3. Lawrence Craven, a doctor from the USA, is the author of several published reports, one of _____ introduced the idea in 1953 _____ aspirin could reduce the risk of heart attacks by thinning blood. A. which; that B. that; which C. which; which D. whom; that 4. In 1977, a study carried out in the USA showed that the chemical ASA in aspirin could prevent a stroke, ____ is a type of serious illness _____ blood vessels in the brain burst suddenly or are blocked. A. that; what B. which; when C. that; which D. which; that 5. In 1999, aspirin was 100 years old and yet there have been more discoveries on ____ it can help increase the length of p