2020 年中考英语阅读理解热点预测题 原创作者 张新峰 Passage 1 Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old female（女性）scientist, became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in science on Oct 5. Before that, she ever won the 2020 Lasker Award for finding out artemisinin (Qinghaosu), which saved millions of lives. She was grateful（感激的） for the Lasker prize, but said, “It is just a scientist’ duty. I will go on fighting for the health of all humans.” Tu kept her work in the 1960s and 1970s. In that age, Malaria (疟疾) could took away people’s health. Scientists all over the world had already tried over 240 000 times t but failed. Tu Youyou, a member of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, began to study Chinese herbs. Before 2020, people didn’t know Tu very much. Many friends played jokes with her “the Professor of Three None's” : no degree（学位）, no study experience abroad, not a member of any Chinese national colleges. But she is hard-working. She read a lot of traditional Chinese medicine books and did a lot of researches on the disease. In February, 2020, Tu was named National Ou tstanding Females (One of the Ten) Tu is now a model of Chinese medical workers. 1. Artemisinin is used to ________. A. make medicine B. make food C. get award D. do the experiment 2. In the 1960s and 1970s could find ways to stop the Malaria. A. Scientists in China B. only Tu Youyou B. Scientists all over the world D. no scientist 3. Tu Youyou became very famous ____________. A. in the 1960s B. in 1970 C. before 2020 D. after 2020 4. From Tu Youyou’s story, we know that she is a ___________ woman. A. friendly B. kind C. clever D. hard-working 5. What can we learn from the passag...
