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PAGE PAGE 1 新闻报道类 1、Eighty-five-year-old Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou became Chinas first winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine when it was announced that she was one of three scientists awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in developing effective drugs against parastic diseases. ??? “Tu was honored for developing artemisin(青蒿素),a drug for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing worldthe Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institue disclosed on its website on Monday. “Tu,a Chinese trained pharmacologist and a researcher at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, went to Stockholm, Sweden in December to receive her award,” according to Cao Hongxin,the science andtechnology department head of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. ??? She was calm and said she has received lots of congratulatory calls, Cao told China Daily on Monday after he telephoned Tu to congratulate her. “It’s an overdue(迟来的) honor for Tu and the world’s recognition of traditional Chinese medicine,” he said. ??? “Tu’s breakthrough in winning the Nobel Prize in a natural science is the pride of the whole nation and the whole Chinese scientific community,” said Zhou Dejin,the spokesman of the Chinese Academy of Science, Chinas national research body that consists of more than one hundred research institutes, universities and research branches. ??? “The achievement of discovering artemisin was made in the 1970s,but it only received international recognition in later years, which suggests that we might have more achievements that have reached the Nobel Prize level but have not been recognized, Zhou said. 1.Why was Tu Youyou awarded the Nobel Prize? A.She made a breakthrough in the Chinese scientific community. B.She came up with a revolutionary theory about medicine. C.She devoted her whole life to medicine research. D.She developed a very effective drug in the 1970s. 2