BEIJING-Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America's
respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria (疟疾) treatment.
The 81yearold was presented with the medical prize by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on September 23, 2011 in New York.
     Tu, a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, was praised by the jury (评判委员会) for her "drug therapy (治疗) for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe,
especially in the developing world," according to a statement on the foundation's website.
     In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate(消灭) malaria, and it was then that she began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug
therapy for malaria.
     After detecting  (检测)  380 extracts  (提取物)  made from 2,000 candidate recipes, Tu and her
colleagues obtained a pure substance called "Qinghaosu", which became known as artemisinin in 1972.
     An artemisininbased drug combination is now the standard regimen (养生法) for malaria, and the
World Health Organization lists artemisinin and related agents in its catalog of "Essential Medicines", said
a statement from the foundation.
     The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945.
     Lasker Awards are known as "America's Nobels" for their knack  (熟练技术)  of gaining future
recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates (得奖者) have gone
on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945.

1．Which of the following statements about Tu Youyou is FALSE?

A．She is the first scientist on the mainland to win America's respected Lasker Award.
B．She is a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
C．She is the first scientist in the world to win America's respected Lasker Award.
D．She began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for
malaria in 1969.

2．Lasker Award is awarded by _____.

A．New York Foundation
B．the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
C．Chinese Medical Sciences
D．Albert and Mary

3．What's the influence about Tu Youyou's "drug therapy for malaria"?

A．It has surprised the people in the world.
B．It has reduced malaria.
C．It applied modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine.
D．It has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world.

4．What's the main idea of the passage?

A．Tu Youyou won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery.
B．An American won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery.
C．Americans founded the Lasker Foundation.
D．Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin.

     LOS ANGELES-Old people who keep walking a relatively long distance may be less likely to suffer
from cognitive(认知的) decline, a new study suggests.
     "By walking regularly, and maintaining a little bit of moderate physical activity, you can reduce your
likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease and spare brain tissue," Kirk I．Erickson, the study's lead
author, said.Erickson and his colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh began to establish a link between walking and memory in 1989.
     According to the report on their study published online Wednesday in Neurology, an official journal of
the American Academy of Neurology, researchers tracked the physical activity and cognitive patterns of
nearly 300 adults.
     At the very beginning, all participants, on average 78 years old and about two－thirds being women,
were in good cognitive health. The researchers charted how many blocks each person walked in one
week. Nine years later, the participants were given a MRI scan to measure their brain size. All of them
were deemed to be "cognitively normal."
     But after four more years, test showed a little more than one third of the participants had developed a
mild cognitive impairment or dementia.
     By correlating cognitive health, brain scans and walking patterns, the research team found that being
more physically active appeared to lower the risk of developing cognitive impairment.
     As to how much walking would help prevent cognitive decline, the researchers suggested that walking
about six miles, or 9.6 km, per week appears to protect the brain against shrinking in old age.
     The researchers said the relationship between walking and gray matter volume appears to apply only to people who regularly walk relatively long distances.
     The more someone walks, the more gray matter tissue the person will have a decade or more down the road in regions of the brain, namely the hippocampus, the inferior frontal gyrus and the supplementary
motor area, that are central to cognition.
     And among the more physically active participants who had retained more gray matter a decade out,
the chances of developing cognitive impairment were cut in half, the study said. 

1. When did the old people tested in the research begin to show difference in cognitive decline?

A. When they were 78 years old.
B. When they were 87 years old.
C. Between the year 1989 and 1998.
D. Between the year 1998 and 2002.

2. What do we know about the gray matter?

A. The quantity of it has a decisive influence on the cognitive ability.
B. It's something in the muscle that develops from physical activity.
C. It's a brain disease that will damage the cognitive ability.
D. It's some brain matter that can cure brain diseases.

3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "shrinking" in Para.9?

A. worrying.  
B. weakening.
C. widening.
D. wandering.

4. What is TRUE about the research?

A. Men and women differ in the decline of cognition.
B. The research subjects were required to walk blocks per week.
C. The findings suggest the more walking, the better health.
D. There were about 200 women involved in the research.

     BEIJING-Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America's
respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria (疟疾) treatment.
     The 81yearold was presented with the medical prize by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on
September 23, 2011 in New York.
    Tu, a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, was praised by the jury (评判委员会) for her "drug therapy (治疗) for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe,
especially in the developing world," according to a statement on the foundation's website.
    In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate(消灭) malaria,
and it was then that she began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug
therapy for malaria.
    After detecting (检测) 380 extracts (提取物) made from 2,000 candidate recipes, Tu and her
colleagues obtained a pure substance called "Qinghaosu", which became known as artemisinin in 1972.
    An artemisininbased drug combination is now the standard regimen (养生法) for malaria, and the
World Health Organization lists artemisinin and related agents in its catalog of "Essential Medicines", said
a statement from the foundation.
     The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945.
     Lasker Awards are known as "America's Nobels" for their knack (熟练技术) of gaining future
recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates (得奖者) have gone
on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945.

1. Which of the following statements about Tu Youyou is FALSE?
A. She is the first scientist on the mainland to win America's respected Lasker Award.
B. She is a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
C. She is the first scientist in the world to win America's respected Lasker Award.
D. She began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug
    therapy for malaria in 1969.

2. Lasker Award is awarded by ________.
A. New York Foundation
B. the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
C. Chinese Medical Sciences
D. Albert and Mary

3. What's the influence about Tu Youyou's "drug therapy for malaria"?
A. It has surprised the people in the world.
B. It has reduced malaria.
C. It applied modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine.
D. It has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world.

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Lasker laureates can not receive the Nobel Prize at the same time.
B. Lasker laureates can receive the Nobel Prize at the same time.
C. Lasker Award is the Nobel Prize.
D. Lasker Awards are known as "America's Nobels".

5. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. Tu Youyou won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery.
B. An American won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery.
C. Americans founded the Lasker Foundation.
D. Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin.

      Angry survivors demanded answers on Sunday after a terrible stampede(踩踏) at"Love Parade
2010", a music festival in Germany, killed 19 people and left hundreds hurt.
     The German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her shock over Saturday's tragedy in the western
city of Duisburg."This was a very sad day, "Merkel said."We must do everything we can to ensure that
something like this never happens again."
     Witnesses said that people pushed into the narrow tunnel, the only entrance to the Love Parade
festival, from both sides until it was dangerously overcrowded.The panic began as festivalgoers began
to lose consciousness as they were crushed against the walls and each other.The dead included eight
foreigners, from Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, China, Bosnia and Spain.More than 340 people
were injured.
     After the panic, a lot of emergency vehicles, including helicopters, could be seen parked on the
highway leading to the festival site, carrying away the injured people.The festival itself, however, went
on.Police  were afraid that ending the music altogether could cause further unrest among the crowd.
      "The event was a real mess, "Patrick Guenter, a 22yearold baker, said."Although the festival was
full, they kept letting people in, " he added."It seems the organisers didn't plan the route.The road was
very narrow, and no one knew what was going on."said Taggart BowenGaddy,20, an American from
Philadelphia.
     Officials said 4,000 police officers and 1,000 security guards provided security for the event, which
attracted up to 1.4 million people.The authorities had only given organisers permission for 250,000
people to attend.
     "I warned one year ago that Duisburg was not a suitable place for the Love Parade.The city is too
small and narrow for such events.It is a pity that..." German police union chief Rainer Wendt told the
Bild.
     The chief organiser, Rainer Schaller, said the popular event would never be held again, "out of
respect for the victims and their families".
     First held in Berlin in 1989 just months before the fall of the Wall, the Love Parade is one of the
biggest music festivals in Europe.It left Berlin from 2007 onwards after disagreements with the city
authorities over security and has been held in several other German cities in recent years.

1. How many Germans were killed in the stampede at"Love Parade 2010 "?
A. 19.        
B. 8.
C. 11.    
D. 15.

2. How did the German Chancellor Angela Merkel feel about the tragedy?
A. Very disappointed.                  
B. Angry and surprised.
C. Very puzzled.                        
D. Touched.

3. According to Patrick Guenter and Taggart BowenGaddy, ________.
A. the event was wellorganized
B. the performance was wonderful
C. Duisburg was suitable for the Love Parade
D. the organisation was very bad

4. We can infer that________.
A. Rainer Wendt's warning went unnoticed
B. Rainer Wendt was a chief organizer of Love Parade 2010
C. Rainer Wendt is a music lover
D. Duisburg is a famous holiday destination

5. We learn from the passage that________.
A. the Love Parade has been canceled forever
B. the Love Parade is a very popular sport event
C. the festival was ended shortly after the panic
D. the Love Parade has a history of over 30 years

     BEIJING-Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America's
respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria (疟疾) treatment.
     The 81yearold was presented with the medical prize by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on
September 23, 2011 in New York.
     Tu, a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, was praised by the jury (评判委员会) for her "drug therapy (治疗) for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, 
especially in the developing world," according to a statement on the foundation's website.
     In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate(消灭) malaria, and it was then that she began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug
therapy for malaria.
     After detecting  (检测)  380 extracts ( 提取物)  made  from  2,000 candidate  recipes,  Tu and her
colleagues obtained a pure substance called "Qinghaosu", which became known as artemisinin in 1972.
An artemisininbased drug combination is now the standard regimen (养生法) for malaria, and the World
Health  Organization  lists artemisinin and  related agents in its catalog  of  "Essential  Medicines", said a
statement from the foundation.
     The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945.
     Lasker  Awards  are  known as  "America's Nobels"  for their knack  (熟练技术)  of  gaining  future
recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates (得奖者) have gone
on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945.

1．Which of the following statements about Tu Youyou is FALSE?

A．She is the first scientist on the mainland to win America's respected Lasker Award.
B．She is a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
C．She is the first scientist in the world to win America's respected Lasker Award.
D．She began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for
malaria in 1969.

2．Lasker Award is awarded by ________.

A．New York Foundation
B．the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
C．Chinese Medical Sciences
D．Albert and Mary

3．What's the influence about Tu Youyou's "drug therapy for malaria"?

A．It has surprised the people in the world.
B．It has reduced malaria.
C．It applied modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine.
D．It has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world.

   Washington(Reuters)-People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher
risk of pancreatic cancer(胰腺癌),an unusual but deadly cancer,researchers reported on Monday.
   People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of  sodas did not have the same risk, the study of  60,000
people in Singapore found.
   Sugar may be to blame but people who drink sweetened sodas regularly often have other poor health
habits,said Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota,who led the study.
   "The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin(胰岛素)in the body,which
we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell's growth,"Pereira said in a statement.
   Writing in the journal Cancer Epidemiology,Biomarkers & Prevention,Pereira and his colleagues said
they followed 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years.
   Over that time,140 of the volunteers developed  pancreatic cancer. Those who drank two or more
sweetened soft drinks a week had an 87 percent higher risk of being among those who got pancreatic
cancer.
   Pereira said he believed the findings would apply elsewhere.
   "Singapore is a wealthy country with excellent healthcare . Favorite pastimes (消遣) are eating and
shopping,so the findings should apply to other Western countries,"he said.
   But Susan Mayne of the Yale Cancer Center at Yale University in Connecticut was cautious.
   "Although this study found a risk,the finding was based on a relatively small number of cases and it
remains unclear whether it is a causal(因果的)connection or not,"said Mayne,who serves on the board
of the journal,which is published by the American Association for Cancer Research.
   Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with 230,000 cases globally. In the United
States,37,680 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in a year and 34,290 die of it.

1．According to the text,who is in control of the health study?

A．Mark Pereira.
B．Scientists from Singapore.
C．Researchers in Yale.
D．Susan Mayne.

2．We can infer from Pereira's words that __________.

A．the healthcare in Singapore should be greatly improved
B．2 soft drinks a day are considered harmful to health
C．87 out of 140 volunteers developed pancreatic cancer
D．sugar might not be the only cause of pancreatic cancer

3．How does Susan seem to feel about the findings of the study?

A．Satisfied.  
B．Doubtful.
C．Worried. 
D．Hopeful.

4．The best title of the text might be __________.

A．The Deadliest Forms of Cancer
B．Drink Fruit Juice Instead of Sodas
C．A Study in University of Minnesota
D．Sugary Soft Drinks Lead to Cancer

     ●Ms Tan,you've referred to your new novel as your eighth book.
     That's because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and
completed this one.
     ●Why do you think you had so many false starts?
     I would say that my reasons were wrong:I was trying to prove that I wasn't just a
mother-daughter storyteller,or I was trying to prove that I didn't just have to write about
things that were strictly Chinese or ChineseAmerican.Those were never the right reasons
for writing those early stories.And I could never come up with other,better reasons for
continuing them.
     ●What kept you going on this book?
     This book was different because it was based on my mother's real life.The reason for
writing it became more personal and emotional.After The Joy Luck Club came out,my
mother was always explaining to people that she wasn't any of the mothers in that book.
And at one point she said to me,"Next book tells my true story."And then she started telling
me things I never knew before.She also told me many,many stories,because my mother
doesn't generalize.The book really grew out of that.
     ●Have you ever visited China?
     Yes.I've been there twice:about three years ago and then again last November,both times
with my mother and my husband.
     ●Was it difficult to capture the ChineseAmerican dialect without sounding like a parody
(拙劣的模仿)?
     No,because it's the language I've heard all my life from my mother.She speaks English as
it's direct translation from Chinese.But it's more than that:Her language also has more
imagery than English.
     ●Can you think of an example?
     Somebody might say to me,"Don't work so hard.You'll kill yourself."My mother will say
to me,"Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else?"So it's very vivid.
That's the way she talks.
     ●Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the
typical Jewish(有癖好的)mother?
     Many people have told me that.I think the motherdaughter relationship is very intense in
both cases.Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their children,
especially their daughters,how to conduct their lives-not simply up until the time they are 18,
but for the rest of their lives.However,when children grow up in a different culture from their
parents',they tend to keep more secrets from their parents.The children think,"They just
wouldn't understand that I had to do this."And that can really create a gap,and it can grow as
the number of secrets grows.

1．Based on the questions in this interview,what do you think Ms Tan's profession is?

A．A journalist.
B．A storywriter.
C．An interviewer.
D．An interviewee.

2．What's TRUE about Tan's second book?

A．It's about her real life in America.
B．The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club
C．It is the result of many times of careful thought.
D．It includes many works of her mother.