"How a Children's Toy Could Help Fight Malaria"

Question

by Jason Daley

“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.

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 show a negative opinion of centrifuges

to indicate a positive opinion of recycling

to highlight a problem with a current system

to criticize the inventor’s waste of time

Answer 1

The purpose of including the sentence about using the centrifuge as a doorstop is to highlight a problem with a current system.

Answer 2

answer from the list?

Answer 3

The correct answer from the list is: to highlight a problem with a current system.