Exerci 1
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Mother Teresa (August 27, 1910—September 5, 1997) was a great woman, who did a lot to improve the social condition of mankind. Due to her contribution in rving the society, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize aged 69.
She was brought up in a Catholic family. When she was only ven, she lost her father. Even as a young child, she was interested in the life of missionaries (传教士). At the age of 18, she decided that she would become a nun. She left her home and went to join the Sisters of Loreto. It was the first step that she made towards providing rvices for mankind.
On the 7th of October in the year 1950, Mother Teresa received Vatican permission to start the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, the mission of which would be to take care of the needy, the homeless, and people who were shunned by the society. Then it had a number o
f branches all over the country. The journey of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity started with the tting up of homes for “the Dying”.
In the year 1983, Mother Teresa suffered from a rious heart attack, while she was in Rome. However, she recovered. But, later in 1989, she again got an attack. Her health went wor and in the year 1991, she suffered from pneumonia. Taking her health problems into consideration, Mother Teresa decided to resign (辞职) from the post of head of the order.
A cret vote was conducted in which all the nuns voted for the stay of Mother Teresa except herlf. So, she agreed to continue rving as head of the Missionaries of Charity. Day by day her health was getting wor. On September 5, 1997, exactly nine days after her 87th birthday, this great soul departed for heaven.蒸鱼干
( )1.Why did Mother Teresa devote her life to the religious life?
A. Becau her parents had a deep influence on her.
B. 属鼠性格Becau she wanted to provide rvices for others.
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C. Becau she thought the life of missionaries simple.
D. Becau she came to know the Sisters of Loreto.
( )2.Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “shunned” in Para. 3?
A. Cared. B. Concerned. C. Ignored. D. Affected.
( )3.Why did Mother Teresa decide to resign from her post?
A. She realized she couldn't fully rve the people in need.
B.婚姻问题 She was only worried about her health condition.
C. She wished to lead a more comfortable life.
D. She knew a heart attack would take her life away at any time.
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Tu Youyou, 90, 1. (honour) with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 5,2015. She was the first Chine citizen 2. (win) a Nobel Prize in science. Tu 3. (share) the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan.
Tu is 4. rearcher at the China Academy of Chine Medical Sciences now. She was given the prize for developing artemisinin(青蒿素), a new drug therapy against malaria(疟疾),5. has saved millions of lives worldwide, especially in developing countries.
Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug 6. the late 1960s. They made 380 herbal extracts from two thousand recipes from traditional Chine medical books. In 1971, after nearly two hundred 7. (fail), Tu's team 8.安布闭壳龟>兔子的特点和生活特征 (final) found an extract that was 100% effective against the malaria parasites—artemisinin. In 2001, the World Health Organization made artemisinin 9. (it) first choice in the treatment of malaria.
“The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chine medicine. It's the collective achievement of the rearch team. 10. (win) the prize is an honour for Chi
ne science and traditional Chine medicine,”Tu said.
Exerci 2
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It's a Friday morning in Boston, which means Dr Jim O'Connell is making his rounds. He might be more comfortable inside an exam room, but that's not where his patients are. O'Connell is one of a handful of physicians making hou calls to the homeless in the city. More than 550,000 Americans are homeless, and many have health problems but no access to care. O'Connell and his team are doing something about it. They spend their days walking around where the homeless live—in parks, under bridges, and outside town. They treat about 700 regular patients. During the rounds, O'Connell himlf usually es about 20 patients. He knows where most of them sleep and whom to ask if they are missing.
O'Connell went to Harvard Medical School and was on his way to a famous oncology (
肿瘤学) scholarship when his chief suggested he take what was suppod to be a one-year position as the founding physician of a new health-care programme for Boston's homeless people. That turned into a 33-year career at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Programme, one of the country's largest of its kind.
O'Connell dispens(提供) just about everything, from stitches(缝线) for an arm to surgery for the soul. If patients can't be treated on the street, he finds them a treatment bed at the organization's medical respite(暂缓) facility, a place for patients who are too sick to be on the streets but not ill enough for a hospital stay.
“Everything I had been taught to do in medical school—go fast, be efficient—was counterproductive when you take care of homeless people,” O'Connell told Harvard Magazine. “When you e somebody outside, you get them a cup of coffee and sit with them. Sometimes it took six months or a year of offering a sandwich or coffee before someone would start to talk to me. But once they engage, they'll come to you anytime becau they trust you.” When asked about how his life might have turned out, had he become a highly paid physician, O'Connell said, “I never think about it anymore.”
