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Burkina Faso student teacher Hema Cecile has a lot more time to crack the books thanks to a recent initiative from the World Ban
Burkina Faso student teacher Hema Cecile has a lot more time to crack the books thanks to a recent initiative from the World Ban
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2011-02-25
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Burkina Faso student teacher Hema Cecile has a lot more time to crack the books thanks to a recent initiative from the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The launch of the Lighting Africa program by the two organizations this year has made it possible for Cecile to swap kerosene lamps for a solar-powered LED lantern.
Lighting Africa is a $12 million project which intends to bring light to the poorest regions across sub-Saharan Africa. The program works with the lighting industry to develop clean, affordable lighting and energy solutions for millions without access to electric grids. Its aim is to accelerate the market and to develop education programs that inform off-grid populations currently dependent on costly, inefficient and hazardous fuel-based lighting about modern alternatives.
Cecile used to spend $3-4 a month on kerosene for her lamp. That is a large proportion of her earnings—like 70 percent of the population she lives on less than $2 a day. In the weeks since buying her lantern she has managed to read four books including Madame Bovary. by Gustave Flaubert and Emile Zola’s Germinal. She is among the most learned in a society which has the world’s lowest literacy rate, according to a 2007 UN Human Development Report. When she graduates next year she will teach in a local junior school She makes ends meet by holiday jobs as a cleaner and an IT trainer. To earn her daily ration of cornmeal she does shifts from May to September in a corn field.
The lanterns are designed to look like the kerosene ones they are replacing in order to increase adoption among the population. Each has a small solar panel on the top and costs an average $30, although some cost $100, depending on the size of the battery and the number of LED lights it contains.
Because of the large number of sunlight hours in Burkina Faso, the lamps can be relied on to work whenever needed. The battery life is 2-4 years, and can be replaced once they lose their storage capacity. The LED lights last 5-10 years.
Although it is barely out of its trial period the project, Chabanne said there are signs the project is a boon for the population in areas other than household savings and education. "There are fewer people reporting eye problems to the local hospital."
The purpose of the Lighting Africa program is to ______.
选项
A、do market research
B、provide new energy solutions
C、help African people to be independent
D、promote modernization across sub-Saharan Africa
答案
B
解析
细节题;考查文章中一个关键的项目Lighting Africa,在原文的第二段我们可以找到“Its aim…”这样的表达,所以我们需要的答案就是“to accelerate the market and to develop education programs…”的同义表达。在4个选项之中,B选项貌似和原文表达差异很大,但实际上表达的意思是一致的,就是说这样一个项目它的根本目的是为了推广新的能源,原文的表达是“that inform off-grid populations currently dependent on costly,inefficient and hazardous fuel-based lighting about modern alternatives”,而这里的关键表达“modern alternatives”和B选项的“new energy solutions”表达的内涵是一致的,是正确答案。
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考研英语一
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