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课件网) A Medical Pioneer What do you know about Tu Youyou Lead-in What do you know about Tu Youyou Lead-in a medical researcher a Nobel Prize winner a female scientist to find a cure for malaria to discover a life-saving drug called artemisinin a winner of the Medal of the Republic As a ,TuYouyou through years of efforts. For that reason, she became the first to be a in China in 2015 and a in 2019. medical researcher found a cure for malaria female scientist Nobel Prize winner winner of the Medal of the Republic Make a Guess People suffer from high fever, serious vomiting and terrible headaches when having the disease. It’s a mosquito-borne and infectious disease. It kills a child under the age of 5 every 2 minutes, and kills over 1 million people every year, only second to AIDS. There’s currently no effective vaccine against it. Try to guess what kind of infectious disease the following facts are mentioning. Malaria（疟疾） Who’s the scientist or medical pioneer behind Malaria The life-saving drug, artemisinin（青蒿素） Try to predict what is going to be talked about or what do you expect to know about Tu Youyou in the text Tu Youyou …… How many parts can the article be divided A Medical Pioneer Structure Achievements & Honour Personal information Her scientific research Attitudes towards fame and research Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3&4 Para. 5 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 A Medical Pioneer（医学先锋） Para.1At the Nobel Prize Lecture on 7 December, 2015, an 84-year-old Chinese woman walked slowly on to the stage. She began to talk about the life-saving drug, artemisinin, which she had discovered with the help of her team in the 1970s. The woman was Tu Youyou, the first Chinese female scientist to be awarded a Nobel Prize for her work. A scientist who was on the Nobel Prize Committee called Hans Forssberg explained that “the discovery of artemisinin has led to the development of new drugs which have saved the lives of millions”. When thanking the Committee for the honour, Tu Youyou said, “This is not only an honour for myself, but also recognition and encouragement for all scientists in China.” Para.2 Tu Youyou was born in Zhejiang Province, China, on 30 December, 1930. She studied medicine at Peking University Health Science Centre. After graduation, she became a member of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Later, she studied Chinese medicine for two and a half years with experts in the field from whom she gained a deep knowledge about traditional practices. Para.3. In 1969, Tu Youyou was chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria—a disease that killed millions of people every year. Across the world, scientists had been trying to find a cure. They tested more than 240,000 chemicals with no success. However, Tu Youyou had an idea that Chinese herbs might hold the secret. She studied ancient Chinese medical literature and visited experts in traditional Chinese medici ... ...
