3 . Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize for her work in helping to create an anti-malarial (疟疾) medicine. The 84-year-old’s route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the “three nos” winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she’s never worked overseas.

In 1967, malaria, a deadly disease at that time, spread by mosquitoes was decimating Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit “Mission 523” was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of “Mission 523”.

“Mission 523” read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug,more than 240,000 compounds around the world had been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood (青蒿), which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound (化合物) in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.

After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient (接受者) of the new drug. In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague, Lianda Li, says Ms. Tu is “unsociable and quite straightforward”, adding that “if she disagrees with something, she will say it”.

Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a “tough and stubborn woman”. Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.

1. According to paragraph 1,we can learn that 　　　.

A．Tu has a medical degree

B．Tu discovered a cure for malaria

C．Tu’s road to success is not traditional

D．Tu is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

2. The underlined word “decimating” can be replaced by 　　　.

A．encouraging	B．killing
C．annoying	D．benefiting

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．Tu first invented the idea of using sweet wormwood as a cure.

B．Tu was inspired by medical textbooks published in northern Vietnam.

C．The compound needs to be heated to the boiling point to be effective.

D．Over 240,000 compounds were proved ineffective before finding an anti-malarial drug.

4. Tu Youyou can be best described as a 　　　person.

A．devoted and stubborn

B．considerate and tough

C．sociable and generous

D．straightforward and mean

4 . 语法填空

Miss Fang couldn’t read for very long without getting a headache. Her mother told her that she     1    go to the Health Service and see a doctor. “You should see a doctor as soon as possible,” she said. “You     2    need glasses.”

When Miss Fang had free time, she went to the Health Service. The appointment clerk said that the doctor     3    see her at 3:30.

Miss Fang replied that she would not be able to be there at 3:30 because she had a class then. “The doctor     4    take you at about ten to four,” the appointment clerk suggested.

“    5    I put you down for ten to four, or would you rather come tomorrow?”

Miss Fang thought she     6    (not) waste any more time. The teacher shouldn’t be unhappy if she asked for permission to leave the class a little early, as he was always so kind to everyone. And she replied, “I think I     7    make it at ten to four.”

Miss Fang went to the class. She asked her teacher, “    8    I leave at 3: 45 today? I     9    have an eye examination.” As expected, the teacher said, “Yes, of course you     10    .”