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As a child, Eloy
Rodriguez picked cotton to help support his family. He also picked up an interest intakes off his lab coat, puts on his mosquito repellent, and
travels to Amazon region of Venezuela with his student. There, they search for
medical plants.
plants. Dr. Rodriguez is now a famous scientist, but he still interested in plants. Every summer he
Dr. Rodriguez grew up in Texas. The adult in his very
large family (67 cousins lived nearby) brought
their children up to be honest,
fair, and vivo or quick-thinking. Rodriguez did well in high school,
especially in chemistry, and went on
to college. He took a job there cleaning a laboratory. He became a science
major and then went on to graduate
school. Soon he was managing the lab.
Eloy Rodriguez and anthropologist Richard Wrangham
once noticed that sick animals often pick
out certain plants to eat. They turned
their observations into a new area
of science—zoopharmacognosy (the study of how animals use plants as medicine).
Today Rodriguez is one of the most brilliant scientists in the United States.
Rodriguez thanks his family. He points
out that 64 of his cousins graduated from college, 11 with advanced
degrees. “Although poverty was there, family was what helped us get by in life.”
Find a phrasal verb from the
article that means…
1.
became an adult _______________
2.
continued _______________
3.
survive _______________
4.
raised _______________
5.
select _______________
6.
removes _______________
7.
developed _______________
8.
covers himself with _______________
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