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What did Tu Youyou do?

【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】

本题选项A 很有迷惑性,但只要稍微留意细节即可排除,因为其给出的是屠 呦呦与其他三位科学家分享诺贝尔医学奖,而录音中说的是有三位科学家获得此奖,其中包括屠呦呦。选项C 和 D 也可以排除,因为录音说屠呦呦发现了 artemisinin (青蒿素),而不是chloroquine (氯喹)或疟疾病菌抗体(这是解释青蒿素时带出 来的背景中涉及的内容)。B 是正确选项,400万瑞典克朗即录音原话中所说的800 万瑞典克朗的一半。

[重点难点]
把握数字转换,根据英语关键基本词的意义排除干扰。

[录音原文]
Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2015. The 84-year-old pharmacologist, Tu Youyou from China, was awarded half of the prestigious 8 million Swedish kronor prize for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug that proved to be an improvem ent on chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that had become far less effective as the malaria parasites developed resistance.