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Unit 6 Admirable
Lesson 1 A Medical Pioneer
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1) Can you list some medical pioneers you know
2) What contributions did they make
Florence Nightingale
Henry Norman Bethune
Zhong Nanshan
Tu Youyou
Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people a year—more people than any disease apart from AIDs.
People suffer from high fever, serious vomiting (v. 呕吐) and terrible headaches when they have the disease.
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malaria
What do you know about malaria Read the facts about it and tick the ones you find most striking or interesting.
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Malaria is a mosquito-borne (adj.蚊子携带的) and infectious (adj.传染的) disease.
The word “malaria” comes from the Latin word for “bad air”.
The drug with artemisinin has proved to be the most effective cure.
There is currently no effective vaccine (n. 疫苗) against malaria.
Who discovered artemisinin
Tu Youyou
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Share with a partner what you know about Tu Youyou. Use the phrases below to help you.
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a medical researcher a Nobel Prize winner
a female scientist to find s cure for malaria
to discover a life-saving drug called artemisinin
Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Physiology (n. 生理学) or Medicine in 2015.
Tu Youyou is a female scientist.
Tu Youyou is a medical researcher.
Tu Youyou and her team discovered a life-saving drug called artemisinin.
Tu Youyou and her team found a cure for malaria.
Tu Youyou
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A Medical Pioneer
Tu Youyou’s education
Research difficulties
Attitudes towards research
Something about the Nobel Prize award ceremony
Attitudes towards honour
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Part 1(Para.1)
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
Part 2(Para.2)
Basic information
Part 3(Para.3-4)
The research work
Part 4(Para.5)
Influence
Read and complete the following information. Then introduce Tu Youyou to your partner based on what you have written.
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Basic information
Scientific work
Attitudes
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Basic information
Date of birth and birthplace:
born in Zhejiang Province, China, on 30 December, 1930
Education:
Work experience:
studied medicine at Peking University Health Science Centre; studied Chinese medicine for two and a half years; gained a deep knowledge about traditional practices
a member of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (中国中医科学院)
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Scientific work
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Research:
Discovery:
chosen to establish a team to find a cure for malaria
Difficulties:
limited resources; not enough staff; poor working conditions; failed experiments (hundreds of)
tested (>240,000); visited experts; researched (hundreds of …); began using … (one by one); tested herself
artemisinin
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Attitudes
Towards the honor:
Towards future research:
not interested in fame
a great potential if Chinese and Western medicine can be fully integrated
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Tu Youyou was born in Zhejiang Province in 1930. She majored in medicine at Peking University, and after she graduated, she went on to work at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Later, she studied Chinese medicine for two and a half years.
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In 1969, Tu Youyou was given the task of finding a cure for a very serious disease—malaria. With no success in the testing of so many chemicals, Tu Youyou turned to Chinese herbs for help. During this process, she ran into many difficulties.
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Tu Youyou eventually came across a promising chemical, artemisinin, which needed to be tested on human beings, and her team followed Tu Youyou to be the first human subjects. The test turned out to be successful, and artemisinin ended up saving millions of lives.
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Though Tu Youyou has become world-famous, she is not interested in fame. She remains humble(adj.谦虚的) about all the honours she has received, and keeps an open mind towards her research, as she continues to work to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western medicine.
Use three words or phrases to summarise Tu Youyou’s personal quality. Give your reasons and find evidence from the text.
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Dedicating to science
Despite hundreds of failures, she kept on doing research with limited resources and hundreds of failures. Even though she became a world-renowned scientist, she continued to conduct research despite age.
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Tu Youyou did research during a difficult time for science in China. She volunteered to be the first human subject to test the effect of the promising chemical.
Brave
“Few people are brave enough to risk their own lives in the hope of saving others.”
“I am the group leader, and I have the responsibility to test it.”
—Tu Youyou
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She and her team used modern methods to study traditional Chinese herbs and came across a promising chemical after hundreds of failed experiments.
Creative
Chinese herbs
Traditional recipes
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Why is Tu Youyou considered a medical pioneer
What typical writing features can you identify in the news article about Tu Youyou
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1. Why is Tu Youyou considered a medical pioneer
Tu Youyou is considered a medical pioneer because she discovered a cure for malaria which no one else had discovered.
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2. What typical writing features can you identify in the news article about Tu Youyou
The headline is short and interesting.
Photographs are included.
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Para 1
At 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.
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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.”
According to Tu Youyou, “From our research experience in discovering artemisinin, we learnt the wisdom behind both Chinese and Western medicine. There is great potential for future advances if these two kinds of wisdom can be fully integrated,” she said.
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A Medical Pioneer
“When you are entrusted (given) with an assignment (mission), you do your best.”

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