Tu Youyou together with William Campbell and Satoshi Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize for their work against parasitic diseases. Irish-born Campbell and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for discovering a new drug, avermectin, that has helped the battle against river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, as well as showing effectiveness against other parasitic diseases. The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou, an 85-year-old female scientist, was awarded the other half of the prize for the discovery of artemisinin(青篙素), a drug cure for malaria(瘧疾) that has saved millions of lives all over the world, especially in the developing world.

When the news broke that Tu won the Nobel Prize, there were cheers as well as doubts. It also has highlighted differences in prize-awarding practices between China and the West. Some said the achievement was the result of collective efforts by lots of Chinese scientists, so it was unfair to award the prize only to Tu. Indeed, Chinese science awards are mainly presented to projects, instead of individual scientists. But Western awards tend to honor individual scientists who are the first to come up with a new idea or method. Li Zhenzhen, a researcher of the China Academy of Sciences said that the West believes that the advancement of science comes from individuals’ creative minds.

In 1969, Tu started to hold a government project aimed at eliminating malaria. Tu and her teammates experimented with 380 extracts in 2,000 candidate recipes before they finally succeeded in getting the pure substance qinghaosu, later known as artemisinin. In 2011, Tu was awarded the Lasker Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award, commonly referred to as “America’s Nobel Prize”. (278 words)

1.Why Tu Youyou could be awarded the Nobel Prize for ?

A. Because she discovered the avermectin, a drug cure for malaria

B. Because she contributed to the traditional Chinese medicine

C. Because she discovered the artemisinin which shows effectiveness against other parasitic diseases

D. Because she has saved millions of lives for the discovery of artemisinin.

2.What is the difference in prize-awarding practices between China and the West?

A. Chinese science awards are mainly presented to individual scientists, instead of projects

B. Chinese believes that the advancement of science comes from individuals’ creative minds

C. Western awards tend to honor individual scientists who are the first to come up with a new idea or method

D. Western awards are presented to both individual scientists and projects

3.How old was Tu Youyou when she was awarded the “America’s Nobel Prize”.

A. 85 B. 81 C. 46 D. 39

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Why Tu Youyou could be awarded the 2015 Nobel prize

B. Why Tu received the “America’s Nobel Prize”.

C. Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisinin

D. The difference in prize-awarding practices between China and the West

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