2 . 阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,从方框中选择适当的词填空,其中有两项为多余选项。
conduct;created; despite;discovered;gained; influential;promising;though |
Tu Youyou is the first Chinese female scientist who was awarded a Nobel Prize.
She studied medicine and 1 a deep knowledge about traditional practices, which enabled her to be chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria in 1969. With the idea that Chinese herbs might hold the secret, Tu Youyou and her team studied some related literature and 2 a lot of researches with limited resources. They used modern research methods to study these Chinese herbs one by one.
After hundreds of failed experiments, they eventually came across a 3 chemical. Tu Youyou bravely volunteered to be the first human subject in the test on humans. The chemical they 4 artemisinin, has now become the world’s most effective drug for fighting malaria.
As one of the most 5 figures of science in the 20th Century, she is not interested in fame and she continues to do research today 6 her age. What she did not only saved millions of lives, but also bridged the Eastern and Western worlds.