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YLC2 Unit 8 READING

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  • How is aspirin described today?
    Cheap and helpful
    Rare and expensive
    Not used anymore
    Only used in hospitals
  • What did artemisinin help save people from?
    Diabetes
    Asthma
    Malaria
    Heart failure
  • What do many people take for headaches in modern times?
    Aspirin
    Coffee
    Herbal tea
    Vitamin C
  • Where do some of today’s medicines come from?
    Modern factories only
    Traditional Chinese medicine
    European foods
    African magic practices
  • What did Tu Youyou do after studying wormwood?
    Made anesthesia
    Developed artemisinin
    Invented aspirin
    Created antibiotics
  • What is the main idea of the passage?
    Modern medicine is better
    Old medicine was useless
    Old remedies influenced modern medicine
    Chemicals are dangerous
  • What disease is mentioned as an example of modern research?
    Cold
    Chickenpox
    Flu
    Cancer
  • What question starts the passage?
    Who created hospitals?
    Where was aspirin invented?
    What should you do if you have a headache?
    Why do leaves taste bitter?
  • Aspirin contains a chemical also found in ancient remedies.
    False
    True
  • What did scientists learn about the two ancient remedies?
    They contain the same chemical
    They had no effect
    They were dangerous
    They were made in the same country
  • What are scientists studying today to develop modern cures?
    Old cooking recipes
    Animal bones
    Traditional treatments
    Space rocks
  • Western medicine always studied Chinese treatments closely.
    False
    True
  • Who discovered the drug artemisinin?
    Marie Curie
    Albert Einstein
    Tu Youyou
    Florence Nightingale
  • Is aspirin considered a modern medicine?
    Yes, definitely
    It is brand new
    Scientists questioned it
    No, never
  • What did Western medicine pay little attention to for centuries?
    European doctors
    Modern science
    Greek myths
    Traditional Chinese medicine
  • What did people in the fourth century BC use to treat fevers?
    Honey
    Medicine from tree bark
    Boiled water
    Milk
  • What did European scientists discover in the nineteenth century?
    Egyptians created hospitals
    Tree bark cures all sickness
    Ancient remedies had the same chemical
    Books contained magic
  • What kind of medicine did Western doctors ignore for a long time?
    Traditional Chinese medicine
    Modern medicine
    African medicine
    European medicine
  • How many years have doctors recorded information from treatments?
    More than 50
    More than 100
    More than 200
    More than 2,000
  • What did Chinese healers study in the third century BC?
    Star movements
    Weather patterns
    Animal behavior
    The human body
  • What plant was used in the past to treat fevers?
    Wormwood
    Lavender
    Mint
    Rosemary
  • Artemisinin helped save lives by treating malaria.
    True
    False
  • Ancient Chinese healers never wrote down their knowledge.
    True
    False
  • Scientists today still explore old remedies for new cures.
    False
    True
  • What did healers do with different treatments?
    Ignored them
    Tested them on patients
    Sold them as spices
    Threw them away
  • What is still useful today from ancient Chinese healers?
    Ancient maps
    Ancient books
    Old clothing
    Old coins
  • What did ancient Egyptians use to treat pain?
    Flowers
    Dried leaves
    Tree bark
    Salt water
  • What did doctors do for more than 2,000 years?
    Created new machines
    Recorded what they learned
    Built hospitals
    Made vitamins
  • Why were ancient books valuable?
    They were rare art
    They were written in color
    They contained thousands of years of knowledge
    They were made of gold
  • What modern drug was made using the chemical from old remedies?
    Paracetamol
    Antibiotics
    Ibuprofen
    Aspirin
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