One medical text from the fourth century suggested using the e    1     from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu’s team t    2     a collection of dried wormwood leaves but found no e    3    .They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the l    4     obtained from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either. Their project got s     5    .However, Tu Youyou would not a    6    defeat. She analysed the medical texts a    7    , and by c    8    , she found one sentence suggesting a d    9    way to treat the wormwood. She concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood apparently destroyed its medial p    10    .

Tu Youyou, a c    1     and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in1955. After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government f    2     a team of scientists with the o    3     of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers c    4    . In the b    5    , Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more c    6    , to study malaria patients. In 1969, she became the head of the p    7     in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional b    8     treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants for their medical properties. From their research, they discovered and tested 380 d    9     ancient Chinese medical treatments that showed p    10     in the fight against malaria.

When she was five years old, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply affected by her mother's death. At age 18, she chose to study medicine instead of following the traditional path of     1     (marry) like the majority of girls. Eight years later, Lin graduated from Peking Union Medical College(PUMC). She            2     (immediate)became the first woman ever to be hired as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Within six months, she was named a chief resident physician, a position that usually took four years to achieve.

After working for a few years, she was sent to study in Europe and then, in the US. She greatly impressed her American     3     (同事)and they invited her to stay. However, she     4     (拒绝)the offer. In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman ever     5     (appoint) director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Dr Lin opened a private     6     (诊所)to help people in need and charged very low     7     (费用) and often reduced costs for poor patients. At times she was even seen     8     (ride) a donkey to faraway villages to provide medical care.

The new People's Republic of China saw Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. In 1954, she            9    (elect) to the first National People's Congress and held many important positions.

Though she never married, she was known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, having delivered over 50, 000 babies in her lifetime. And she didn't     10     (退休)until the day she died.

(Unit 3) “Just relax, since there is nothing planned on the     1     today. Tomorrow you’ll be ready for some visits.” Having said this, he spread some food on the table, and     2     a bed from the floor. After he left, I had a bried meal and a hot bath.     3     , I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.

(Unit 4) You need to be curious. Only if you ask many questions will you     4     all the information you need to know. We say a good journalist must have a good “nose” for a story. That means you must be able to     5     when people are not telling the whole truth and then try to discover it. They must use research to     6     themselves of the missing part of the story.

(Unit 5)     7     clothing using     8     if necessary unless it is stuck to the burn. Take off other clothing and jewellery near the burn.

(Unit 5) Cool burns immediately with cool but not icy water. It’s best to place burns under gently running water for about 10 minutes. (The cool water stops the burning process, prevents the pain becoming     9     and reduces     10    .) Do not put cold water on third degree burns.

Hospital

First we will put you as an    1    to an experienced journalist. Later you can cover a story and    2     the article yourself.

No need for a camera. You will have a    3     photographer with you to take photographs. You will find your colleagues very    4     to assist you, so you may be able to    5    on photography later if you’re interested.

The skin is an     6     part of your body and its largest organ. You have three layers of skin which act as a     7    against disease, poisons and the sun’s harmful    8    .

Cover the burned area with a dry, clean     9     that will not stick to the skin. Hold the bandage in place with tape. Never put butter, oil or ointment on burns as they keep the heat in the wounds and may cause    10    .