牛津高中英语模块七 unit2 reading.pptVIP

* Module 7 unit2 Fit for life aspirin penicillin What are the two medicines mentioned in the article? When was one of the medicines first sold as a tablet? What did Fleming, Florey and Chain share? When did people find that drinking a special tea could reduce fever and pain? When was ASA first made from other chemicals? What other things can ASA help with besides reducing fever and pain? Where did Alexander Fleming find penicillin? What illnesses can penicillin be used to treat? Why were Fleming, Florey and Chain given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945? Fill in the boxes. Sold in shops as a tablet 1900 1928 Discovered by Alexander Fleming World War II Found new chemical techniques to purify it All the scientists shared the Nobel Prize 1945 As the best-selling painkiller recorded in the Guinness Book 1950 1971 1977 2003 1900 1928 World War II 1945 1950 1971 1977 2003 Proved to be a blood-thinning medicine Used to prevent a stroke Used to reduce blood sugar levels Fill in the boxes. 1. physician 2. bark 3. painkiller 4. thinning 5. contemporary 6. transparent 7. purify 8. quantities 9. widespread a. modern, of present time b. happening in a lot of places c. a medical doctor who does not perform operations d. amounts of something e. the skin of a tree f. to make pure g. a type of medicine used to reduce pain h. clear and able to be seen through i. making a liquid less thick aspirin a medicine that was __________in 1897. It has saved and brought relief to millions of people’s lives. It is made from a chemical called _____and was first sole as a tablet in 1900. This was the first medicine to be sold as a standardized ______. It works by reducing fever and pain. It is now______________for reducing potential heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Many reports have been___________about how aspirin can improve people’s health. published; recommended; ASA; tablet ; invented invented ASA tablet recommended published contemporary; discovered; available peni