Question

“There are more than a billion people around the world who have no infrastructure, no roads, and no electricity,” says Manu Prakash, a physical biologist at Stanford and inventor of the new gadget. When he visited Uganda in 2013 he found that clinics either did not have centrifuges or didn’t have the juice to power them. “One clinic used its broken centrifuge as a doorstop,” Prakash tells Devin Powell at Nature.
Question Use the passage to answer the question. For what purpose does the author include the sentence about using the centrifuge as a doorstop? (1 point) Responses to criticize the inventor’s waste of time to criticize the inventor’s waste of time to indicate a positive opinion of recycling to indicate a positive opinion of recycling to highlight a problem with a current system to highlight a problem with a current system to show a negative opinion of centrifuges

Answer 1

The author includes the sentence about using the centrifuge as a doorstop to highlight a problem with a current system.