广州市海珠区2016.1九年级英语期末试卷及答案.doc

2015-2016 学年第一学期海珠区
期末初三统考试卷和答案(英语)
一、语法选择(共15 小题;每小题1 分,满分15 分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1-15 小题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中选出一个最
佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In recent days, the news of Tu Youyou’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Medicine has
occupied the Chinese media and everybody gets excited about that. Dr. Tu, an ___1____ Chinese
medical scientist, was famous for her discovery of artemisinin(***), a medicine ___2____ has
greatly reduced the number of people who die from malaria(疟疾).
Tu’s research can date back to the 1960s. In order to save the soldiers and people in southern
China suffering from malaria, Tu was given a task __3_____ the treatment for the serious illness.
The Chinese Government ___4____ lots of money supporting her work, so she started her
research on anti-Malaria medicine at once. She ___5____ a team, did experiments in over 200
kinds of traditional Chinese medicines and experienced over 380 failures. Finally she ___6____
artemisinin in 1971. After ____7___ on mice and monkeys, Tu and her two teammates
volunteered to do many teats on ___8____ own bodies. At last, it proved to be 100 percent
effective. They were happy with the test results, ____9___ they soon carried out medical tests on
patients widely and cured medical-resistant malaria ___10____. Tu said ___11____ this prize was
not a personal one but the wisdom of a whole team.
“Artemisinin is a gift from traditional