The landmark success of herbal expert Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman     1     (win) a Nobel Prize in Science,     2     (arouse) an extreme sense of national pride and hopes on the future of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the past few days. Tu, born in 1930, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Irish-born William Campbell and Japan’s Omura for her discoveries     3     (concern) a treatment for malaria（疟疾）.

She discovered Artemisinin（青蒿素）, a drug     4     has significantly reduced the death rates for patients suffering from malaria. “Artemisinin is a gift for the world people from the traditional Chinese medicine. It is of great significance for curing malaria and other infectious diseases and for protecting the health of the world people.” Tu said in Beijing. The prize winning is     5     honor for China’s science cause and traditional Chinese medicine in their course of reaching out to the world.

“Tu’s winning the prize signifies China’s prosperity and progress in     6     (science) and technological field, marks a great contribution of traditional Chinese medicine     7     the cause of human health. and shows China’s growing strengths and rising international standing,” Premier Li Keqiang said in a congratulatory letter on Monday evening.

In 1951, she     8     (admit) into Beijing University, majoring in pharmacognosy（生药学）. Since graduating from college in 1955, she has been a chief researcher and professor at the Beijing-based China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. In 2011, Tu won America’s respected Lasker Award for the anti-malaria therapy.

On Weibo, the breaking news has been sent by at least tens of thousands of users and received countless     9    (thumb-up). Netizen “Xiaoxie” wrote, “Now I feel     10     (true) proud of being a medical student.

We are proud that Yuan Longping is honored as China's “father of hybrid rice”. for his contributions to the country's food security.

He     1    (develop) the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and up to now has been regarded as a national hero for boosting grain harvests and helping to feed the world's most populous country.

    2    (bear) in Beijing in September 1930, Yuan began his career as an agrarian researcher the 1950s. He often said in interviews     3     he was driven to increase rice output in China because of the hunger he had witnessed. “My lifetime pursuit is     4    (ensure) all people stay away from hunger,” he once said.

In     5     decades that followed, Yuan was associated with some of the most important     6    (breakthrough) in his field.

Yuan was awarded the World Food Prize in 2004, for “pioneering research that helped transform China     7     food deficiency (缺乏) to food security within three decades”.

In his later years, he was also involved in research in China and Dubai into growing crops in diluted seawater.

In 2019. Yuan was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the country's     8    (high) honour, for his contribution to China's food security and     9     (scientist) development of agriculture, as well as     10     (increase) the world’s food output.