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必修3 Unit4 Reading : Chinese scientist wins 2015 Nobel Prize By Dina Conner11 December 2015 Tu Youyou has become the first female scientist of the Peoples Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize awarded for her contribution to the fight against malaria, one of the deadliest diseases in human history.Thanks to her discovery of qinghaosu, malaria patients all over the world now have had a greatly increased chance of survival. Thanks to her discovery of qinghaosu, malaria patients all over the world now have had a greatly increased chance of survival.得益于她发现青蒿素，如今全世界疟疾患者的存活率大大的提高。 Born in 1930, in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Tu studied medicine at university in Beijing between 1951 and 1955. After graduation she worked at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She completed further training courses in traditional Chinese medicine, acquiring a broad knowledge of both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. acquire a broad knowledge 获得了广泛的知识 Tus education was soon to prove very useful. In the 1960s, many people were dying of malaria and in 1969 Tu became head of a team that intended to find a cure for the disease. She collected over 2,000 traditional Chinese medical recipes for malaria treatment and made hundreds of extracts from different herbs. When they failed to produce any promising results, Tu referred to the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine again.Inspired by an over 1,600-year-old text about preparing qinghao extract with cold water, Tu redesigned the experiments and tried extracting the herb at a low temperature in order not to damage its effective part. On 4 October 1971 after 190 failures she succeeded in making qinghao extract that could treat malaria in mice. Be intended to想要做 extract≈extort≈remove redesign≈leave≈quit However, it was hard to produce enough qinghao extract for large trials because research resources were limited.Tu and her team managed to find solutions to the problem.When there was no research equipment, they ha