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PAGE PAGE 2 根据首字母提示填写适当词的正确形式。 Unit1 People of Achievement TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a c_________ new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and has led to improved health for millions of people. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600, 000 die from it. Artemisinin has become a v_________ part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone. Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955. After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientists with the o_________ of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers chosen. In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional b_________ treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2, 000 old medical texts, and e_________ 280, 000 plants for their medical p_________. From their research, they discovered and tested 380 d_________ ancient Chinese medical treatments that showed promise in the fight against malaria. One medical text from the fourth century suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu’s team tested a collection of dried wormwood leaves but found no effect. They then tried b_________ fresh wormwood, and using the l_________ o_________ from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either. Their project got stuck. However, Tu Youyou would not a_________ d_________. She a_________ the medical