As a professor,Gadgil encourages his students to stay positive about finding solutions to hard problems.“Be optimistic when you try a hard problem,” he says.“It’s when you solve a large problem that you can have a big impact on the world.”

　　【语篇导读】文章主要讲述Ashok Gadgil为改善发展中国家人民的生活而努力,作为教授,他鼓励学生积极面对难题。

　　43What can we learn about UV Waterworks?

　　A.It’s Gadgil’s first invention.

　　B.It’s used to clean water.

　　C.it was designed for his home country.

　　D.It saved 10,000 people in total.

　　答案:B

　　解析:细节理解题。从第三段“The device kills deadly disease-carrying germs from drinking water.”可知是用来净化水的。

　　44.The underlined word “contaminated”in Paragraph 3 means　. 

　　A.wasted B.consumed

　　C.polluted D.canned

　　答案:C

　　解析:词义推测题。根据此词所在句“in 1993 the disease is spread through contaminated food and drinking water.”可以推测出contaminate为“污染的”之意。

　　45.According to the last paragraph,Gadgil encourages his students　. 

　　A.to learn lessons from failures

　　B.to find problems in peaceful life

　　C.to make inventions to help poor people

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