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.

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.