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 Th