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For what purpose does the author include the sentence about using the centrifuge as a doorstop?



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“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.

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to highlight a problem with a current system
to highlight a problem with a current system

to indicate a positive opinion of recycling
to indicate a positive opinion of recycling

to show a negative opinion of centrifuges
to show a negative opinion of centrifuges

to criticize the inventor’s waste of time
to criticize the inventor’s waste of time
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Answer 1

to highlight a problem with a current system

The sentence shows that clinics lack working centrifuges and power, emphasizing the need for a suitable, low-cost alternative.