第一篇：
1. This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a __________new treatment for malaria.
2. Artemisinin has become a _______ part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought to save 100,000 lives a year in Africa alone.
3. In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientists with the _____________ of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and TU Youyou was among the first researchers chosen.
4. In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts to find traditional __________ treatments for the disease. 5. Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts, and ____________ 280,000 plants for their medical_______________.
6. From their research, they discovered and tested 380 ___________ancient Chinese medical treatments that showed promise in the fight against malaria.
7. They then tried _____________ fresh wormwood, and using the _______ ___________from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either.
8. However, TU Youyou would not _________________ _____________. 9. She ____________ the medical texts again and by chance, she found one sentence suggesting a different way to treat the wormwood.
10. She concluded that boiling the sweet wormwood ____________ destroyed its
medical properties.
11. Using a lower temperature to draw out the extract, she found a _________ that
worked.
12. Tu Youyou and her team members even___________ ________ testing the
medicine on themselves to make sure that it was safe.
13. It is indeed an honour for China's _____________ research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.\"
Unit 2
第一篇：
1. Or, have you ever forgotten to ___________ _______ the TV or computer?
2. However, in the not-too- ____________ future, we will be living in smart homes that
will lock the door for us when we are away and remember to switch off the TV when we forget.
3. These smart homes will keep us _________, save us energy, and provide a more comfortable environment to live in.
4. Today, we have to use switches for our lights, knobs for our appliances, and __________ ___________ for our TVs and________ _______________.
5. In the future, we will be using advanced technology every day for ______________ control of just about everything in our home.
6. The future home will use_______________ sensors to tell when you leave home each morning, and then go into an energy-___________ __________ all by itself. 7. Your home will also learn your ___________ ____________and _______________, so everything will be ready for you when you get home each evening.
8. Your lights will come on the ______________ you enter the door along with your favourite music or TV programmes, and you will find your dinner already prepared for you.
9. If you start to have sleep or weight problems, it will send a _______________ to your phone.
10. Smart toilets will be keeping ______________ track of your health as well.
11. They can warn you ________ _____ if there is something _____________or if you have a ____________ illness, such as ___________, and potentially save your life. 12. For example, if a water pipe starts ___________or if there is a short in the electrical wiring, your smart home will __________ it and provide you with the _____________information.
13. This way, you will be able to fix the problem before your home becomes flooded or ___________ _________.
14 This smart technology is not a __________. Many of these new_______________ are already ______________ and being used in some homes.
15._______ _______ _________, the home of tomorrow is already the home of today. 16. _______________, it will take some years before most new homes begin to use this new technology.
Unit3
第一篇 单词
1. I wake up to the sound of the wind___________ the ________ of my tent. 2. I leave my tent and walk over to the mountain_____________.
3. Spreading out before me, branches of the Rapa River flow through the ______ below. 4. Sarek's mountains used to be covered by_______ sheets of ice.
5. Following the reindeer were the Sami people, who made this _________ their home. 6. Though the Sami are allowed to continue their traditional way of life in thepark no one else can live here, and all new development is____________ within park _____________ .
7. At the far side of the valley, an ancient Sami _________ is ____________.
8. Since reindeer were always _____ ________ __________, the Sami would pick up their tents and ______________ them.
9. I am not a Sami, but in Sarek I’ve ___________ some of their habits.
10. For example, this morning my breakfast is flat bread warmed over a fire, dried reindeer meat, and some sweet and ________ berries that I found growing near my tent.
11. Being in such a beautiful and wild place makes me feel _________ to be alive.
短语
1. After breakfast, I pack my bag and_______ __________ again.
Unit 4
第一篇
单词
1. We use both words and body language to express our thoughts and opinions in our
______________ with other people
2. Just like spoken language, body language ___________ from culture to culture. 3. The crucial thing is using body language in a way that is _____________ to the culture you are in.
4. In other countries, ______ __________, eye contact is not always ___________ of. 5. In Japan, it may ____________ respect to look down when talking to an old person. 6. In Japan, someone who ____________ another person ______________ the gesture might think it means money.
7. In France, a person encountering an ____________ gesture may ____________ it as meaning zero.
8. Even the gestures we use for \"yes\" and \"no\" _________ around the world.
9. Elsewhere, people __________ shaking hands, ___________ from the _________, or nodding the head when they meet someone else. 10. A smile can _________ __________ _____________.
短语
1. _______ ________________, in Bulgaria and southern Albania, the gestures have the opposite meaning.
Unit 5
第一篇
1. Indeed, his slim but strong body is just like that of millions of Chinese farmers, to whom he has ____________ his life.
2. However; what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious ____________ of food to eat.
3. To ___________ this __________, he chose to study agriculture and received an education at Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing.
4. Instead, farmers needed to ___________ yields in the fields they had. How this could be done was a challenging question at the time.
5. Yuan was _____________ that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice.
6. One _________ of hybrids is that they usually ________ a higher yield than _______________ crops.
7. The common _____________ then was that it could not be done.
8. Through_________ effort, Yuan __________ enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming in 1974. 9. This hybrid enabled farmers to __________ their ___________ greatly.
10. Today, it is ___________ that about 60 percent of ___________ rice _____________in China is _____________ of crops _____________ from Yuan's hybrid strains, and his strains have allowed China's farmers to produce around 200 million tonnes of rice per year.
11. Given that Yuan's hybrids have made him quite wealthy, one might think he would retire to a life of ______________.
12. As a man of the _________, he cares little for ____________ or money.
13. Long ago, he envisioned rice plants as tall as sorghum, with each ear of rice as big as a broom, and each ________ of rice as huge as a peanut.
14. His latest vision for \"seawater rice\" has also become a _________, and potentially opened up nearly one million square kilometres of __________ land in China for rice production.
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