Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Ashok Gadgil has spent the past three decades helping people in need--and he has no plans to stop .On May 2, Gadgil won the$100.000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. Each year,the honor is given to an inventor who has improved the lives of people in developing countries. Gadgil's inventions have helped more than 100 million people around the world. Gadgil is a professor and physicist at the University of California. When he's not teaching,he works to find solutions to global problems such as energy efficiency and water safety. "I chose to focus on problems where my knowledge of science could help,"he said In the 1980s he came up with a program to make energy-efficient light bulbs more affordable for people in developing countries. Then in the 1990s,Gadgil designed his first life--saving invention,UV Waterworks .The device kills deadly disease --carrying germs from drinking water. It costs just one cent to clean five liters of water .Gadgil was inspired to find an inexpensive solution to the clean water crisis after more than 10,000 people in his home country of India died from an outbreak of Bengal cholera,in 1993 The disease is spread through _ food and drinking water .So far,the invention has provided safe drinking water to more than five million people in poor areas. 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" Question: Which of the following can best describe Gadgil? Answer:

Answer: Caring and optimistic.


Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Jeanette Rankin was born on a ranch in Montana,USA in 1882.In those days,Montana was still a frontier state,and life there was hard.Men and women shared the difficult outdoor work.But young Jeanette noticed men and women were not equal in many ways.For instance, at election time, women were not allowed to vote.Jeanette thought this was not fair, and several years later, after graduating from college, she realized how to help change the situation. First, she joined with other women.and gave speeches through the state.Thanks to their years of efforts, Montana women were finally allowed to vote.This experience changed Jeanette's life.She wanted do work for the welfare of women and children everywhere.She was now well-known throughout Montana, so she decided to run for the US Congress.In 1916,she became the first woman in the Congress of the United Staters. Just six days after Rankin first attended Congress in 1917,American President Wilson called for a vote to go to war against Germany, as German submarines attacked American ships during World War I.When Jeanette was called upon to vote,she said,"I want to stand by my country, buy I cannot vote for war.I vote no."Forty-nine other congress members also voted no,but she was the person who was criticized most.Newspapers said her decision came from weakness and she was anti-American. In the Second World War, Japanese warplanes attacked the American base at Pearl Harbor in 1941.The time came again for the US Congress members to vote for or against going to war.Everyone was waiting for Jeanette Rankin to vote, who rose and said,"As a woman, I can't go to war, so I refuse to send anyone else".Out of 471 members,she was the only member who voted against war.After that,she received thousands of letters.Most people criticized her, but some praised her for her courage. Shortly before she died in 1973, she was asked if she regretted voting "no"to the two wars."Never,"she answered."If you are against war,you're against war regard less of what happens." Today, in the US... Question: She decided to run for the US Congress because  _  . Answer:

Answer: She wanted to help more women and children


Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Mrs. Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade. One day at lunch time,I was getting ready to eat my same old tuna fish sandwich and suddenly Mrs. Amatuli asked me if she could buy my sandwich from me. She explained that I could use the money to buy a hot lunch from the cafeteria. I was thrilled. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was too expensive for my family,and I always carried my lunch and brought the bag back home to use again the next day. My sandwiches were either bologna or tuna fish. It rarely varied beyond that. You can understand my delight when I had the opportunity to buy a hot lunch. When we finished lunch that day. Mrs. Amatuli took me aside and said she wanted to explain why she had bought my sandwich. I really didn't care why, but it gave me a few minutes of her precious attention so I was very quiet as she explained. You see,she was Catholic and she told me that Catholics didn't eat red meat on Fridays--they ate fish on Fridays. Oh,I couldn't wait to get home and tell my mama that from now on 1 wanted tuna fish on Fridays. After my mama understood why,she gladly fixed tuna fish for me on Fridays. She even fixed it on brown bread because she knew Mrs. Amatuli liked brown bread. From then on. every Friday I could get in line with the rest of the kids for a hot lunch. I didn't care how many of the kids complained about cafeteria food--it tasted _ to me! I realize now that Mrs. Amatuli could have fixed herself a tuna sandwich of Friday. But she bought my sandwich because she saw a 1ittle girl who was thrilled over the simple act of having a hot lunch. I will never forget her for her compassion and generosity and what I should do is to follow her example. Question: Which of the following can best show the theme of this text? Answer:

Answer: