2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Tu’s education was soon to prove very useful. In the 1960s, many people were dying     1     malaria, and in 1969 Tu became head of a team that intended     2     (find) a cure for the disease. She collected over 2000 traditional Chinese medical recipes for malaria     3     (treat) and made hundreds of extracts from different herbs. When they failed to produce any     4     (promise) results, Tu referred     5     the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine again.     6     (inspire) by an over 1600-year-old text about preparing qinghao extract with cold water, Tu redesigned the experiments and     7     (try) extracting the herb at a low temperature in order not to damage its     8     (effect) part. On 4 October 1971, after 190     9     (fail), she succeeded in     10     (make) qinghao extract that could treat malaria in mice.

6 . Bethany Burke was packing for a family vacation when she glanced in the mirror and froze. She saw a small ugly red bump in the middle of her forehead. “That’s the worst,” she remembers thinking. She had no idea, however, how much worse it would get.

Bethany, a 15-year-old high school student tried to forget about the bump as she boarded a flight from her hometown of Austin, Texas, to Portland, Oregon. But during the flight the bump grew and grew.

After the plane landed, more bumps appeared, including one close to her eye. Her parents took her to the nearest emergency room. As it turns out, Bethany had been attacked by a superbug (超级病菌).

Superbugs were once a problem only in hospitals and nursing homes. In the past decade, though, they have been affecting healthy children and adults as well. In a few hours, they can cause life-threatening infections.

“Teens, especially student athletes, can be easily hurt because superbugs stay in warm, damp places where people come into close contact with each other, such as school locker rooms and gyms,” says Dr. Aaron Glatt, an infectious disease specialist. “If you get cut playing sports, and you come into contact with a superbug on a mat, you give it a way to get in,” he explains.

As for Bethany, she says the doctor didn’t seem too concerned. “He just handed me this pill, an antibiotic (抗生素),” Bethany says. “He gave us the impression that it was going to clear up very fast.”

It didn’t take long for Bethany to realize the antibiotics the doctor had given her weren’t working. One of the bumps grew so large that she could no longer open her eye, and her pain increased. Her parents rushed her to another hospital. The new medicines seemed to start working. Her fever dropped, and the bumps stopped growing.

Luckily for Bethany, there were still three powerful antibiotics that together were able to fight off her infection. But what happens when superbugs become resistant even to those drugs? For doctors, that’s the biggest worry.

1. Bethany discovered a bump on her forehead ________ .

A．after the plane for Portland landed	B．when she came back from a vacation
C．when she was preparing for a vacation	D．after she boarded a flight from Austin

2. Student athletes are likely to be attacked by superbugs partly because ________.

A．they sweat a lot	B．they are often tired
C．they are healthy and strong	D．they often wear dirty clothes

3. How did Bethany feel after taking the pills given by the doctor in the nearest emergency room?

A．Even worse.	B．Much better.
C．A little better.	D．As terrible as before.

4. Doctors are most worried that ________.

A．antibiotics are being overused

B．teens are being attacked by superbugs

C．superbugs may become resistant to all drugs

D．more people will get infected with superbugs

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

If you open up any medicine cupboard     1     go to any medicine counter in the world, it is likely     2     you will find aspirin and penicillin.

Aspirin     3     (invent) in 1897. The first trials of this medicine took place in 1899. In 1900 aspirin was sold in shops in     4     form of tablets. Not only has aspirin proved vital for     5     (reduce) fever and helping stop pain, but there are also other things that aspirin can help     6    . In 1977 a study carried out in the USA showed that aspirin could prevent strokes.

Another drug that has helped increase the standard of people’s     7     (healthy) is penicillin. It was discovered by a Scottish scientist     8     (name) Fleming in 1928. In 1940, two other scientists managed to make and test the new drug in large     9     (quantity). Due to the widespread use of penicillin, many lives were saved during World War Ⅱ. Penicillin became the     10     (great) drug of the 20th century, saving millions of lives.

10 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Penicillin(青霉素) is widely considered     1     (be) one of the most important medical discoveries in history, but it was not what Alexander Fleming was looking for when he found it     2     September 1928.

Fleming,     3     scientist from Scotland, returned to his laboratory after a holiday and found some mould(霉菌) on one of his     4     (plate) of bacteria(细菌). He observed that the bacteria     5     (surround) the mould were dead.     6    (surprise) by this, Fleming performed some tests. The results indicated that something produced by the mould had killed the bacteria. He was     7    (whole) aware that it could be very     8    (use) for treating wounds.

For more than 10 years, Fleming had been researching penicillin and trying to make it into an effective medicine. Finally, his work caught the attention of some other scientists     9     were able to do it. Since its mass production began in the1940s, penicillin     10    (save) millions of lives.