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It looks a bit like the coolers ud to keep drinks fresh on asunny day but the cool box being tested in hot Mozambique rves a higher purpo –saving lives from malaria(疟疾).The new cool box is intended to keep malaria medicines at 25 degrees Celsius(77 degrees Fahrenheir) or below in poor rural areas without electricity where the temperature can reach 45 degrees Celsius.“At the beginning, the cool boxes will be ud to store malarial drugs,” said Parfair Komlan Edah, advisor to John Snow Incorporated, a US company developing the coolers.“We will change the treatment pattern and procedure becau the drugs are expensive and they have to be well stored to be effective,” he said.The projuct, funded by the US Agency for International Development , started in 2006 and is still at an expermental stage. The coolers are currently being tested in three regions of Mozambique –Maputo, Tete and Zambezia.The tests will determine whether the coolers are adopted for u nationwide.In Mozambique , malaria is the leading cau of death among children admitted to pediatric(儿科的) rvices and there has been an increa in cas of malaira in recent years.Faced with the sudden increa in malaira, Mozambique’s health ministry last year decided to expand the u fo rapid diagnostic tests for the dia that can give a result within minutes.The only trouble was that diagnostic tests have to be stored at the temperature of 25 degrees Celsius or below and are currently only available in provincial hospitals that have refrigeration facilities.“The project was faced with the dilemma(进退两难的处境) of how to ensure quality products despite the hot, humid weather and lack of electricity common in remote health facilities,” Edah said.The solution was to design”evaporative(蒸发的) coolers”—similar in size to a small refrigerator. The coolers have a water tank at the top that is regularly refilled. When water evaporates from the tank it pass aong wicks that stick out of the cooler, keeping the content s of the box cool/In a message on World Malaria Day, the World Health Organization(WHO) stred the importance of national malaira programmes.Nelson Nkini, head of Prorv, a Mozambican non-governmental group supplying mosquito nets treated with anti-malarial substances, said preventing the dia was cheaper than curing it becau of the cost of medicines.60. If the cool boxes are ud,_________.A. medicines can be stored at any degree CelsiusB. malaria will disapear in MozambiqueC. malaria medicines will be ud more effectivelyD. the temperature will become lower in Mozambique61. The situation in Mozambique is that__________.A. the official department doesn’t know what mianly caus children’s deathB. the project funded by the US Agency for International Development is fighting against malaria.C. the u of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria is being expanded inth whold countryD. diagnostic tests can be currently available in most rural hospitals.62. Which can be the best title for the passage?A. A project in MozambiqueB. Fighting against malariaC. Preventing the spread of malariaD. Super cooler gives hope for malaria victims 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:C小题2:B小题3:D

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