問題詳情：
Tu Youyou, the 85-year-old Chinese pharmacologist（*理學家），received the Nobel Prize
for medicine in Stockholm on December 10,2015. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel winner in
physiology（生理學）or medicine. Also, in 2011, she became the first Chinese person to receive
the US-based Lasker Award for clinical medicine.
Based on a fourth-century Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) text, together with her team,
she managed to get artemisinin【青蒿素）from sweet wormwood through trial and error and
developed an important drug that has significantly reduced death rates among patients suffering from malaria. Tu delivered a speech titled Artemisinin is a Gift from TCM to the World. She has urged more research into the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine and called for joint efforts worldwide to fight against malaria and develop more potential uses for TCM, which she called a"great treasure" wiffi thousands of years' history and empirical knowledge. She said that by combining TCM with modem scientific technologies, "more potential can be discovered in searching for new drugs " .
According to the WHO, more than 240 rrullion people in sub-Saharan Africa have benefited
from舭tmisinin, and more than l. 5 nullion lives are estimated to have been saved since 2000
thanks to the drug. Apart from its contribution to the global fight against malaria, TCM played a
vital role in the deadly outbreak of SARS across China in 2003.
Besides treating viruses, TCM has been most effective in diagnosing diseases, cultivating fitness, treating difficult multisource illneases, and using nonmedicinal methods such as acupuncture (鍾刺療法) and breatlung exercises.
However, TCM, which is based on a set of beliefs about human biology, is seldom understood or accepted by the West. Tu' s success will bring more recognition and respect for TCM, experts say. The Westem world should leam to appreciate the value of the treasures of TCM, which will lead to more basic scientific research into ancient TCM texts and ways to explore research findings worldwide.
21. In this passage the author mentions _ prize( s) that Tu Youyou received.
A. one B. two C. three D. four
22. The underlined word "malaria" in Paragraph 2 refers to "a kind of ".
A. medicine B. aninud. C. plant D. disease
23. What can we leam from the passage?
A. Tu's success may encourage Eastemers to leam more about Chinese medicine.
B. Nothing remains to be done in researclung into TCM theories and texts.
C. More research into the value of TCM should be carried out worldwide.
D. TCM only contributes to the fight against and SARS in China.
24. What's the passage mainly about?
A. TCM is based on thousands of years of practice in China.
B. Nobel winner, Tu Youyou, strongly supports TCM research.
C. Artenusinin is now widely used to fight against Malaria.
D. Westemers will appreciate the value of the treasures of TCM.
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