25.Wtbhered the author about her daughter's upcoming trip
A.She was worried about the cost of the trip.
B.She had litle knowledge about the destination.
C.She was unsure of how involved she should be.
D.She doubted her daughter's ability to look after herself.
26.What did the author finally decide to do
A.Tum a blind eye to her daughter.
B.Take charge of her daughter's trip.
C.Contact her daughter as often as possible.
D.Stay connected but not disturb too much.
27.What's the author's purpose of writing the text
A.To analyse parent-child relationship.
B.To suggest how to plan a gap year trip.
C.To compare different gap year travel experiences.
D.To share mixed feelings about her daughter's trip.
C
If there's such a person as a young STEM icon,Gitanjali Rao is the one.
In April 2014.the city of Flint disconnected from Detroit's water line as a cost-cutting
measure and began to draw water from the Flint River.Soon after,shockingly high levels of lead
()were found in the city's water supply.Residents including children were showing up with
mysterious rashes and other illnesses.
When she leamed about the crisis,Gitanjali decided to do something."I was shocked and I
wanted to do something to change this,"she said.Inspiration really struck her after she watched
her engineer parents test for lead in the tap water.She decided to build a lead-detecting device
that would be easy and affordable for anyone to use.In 2017,she developed a device called
Tethys.It won her the title "America's Top Young Scientist"in the 3M Young Scientist
Challenge.Meanwhile,Rao had been working on solutions to other issues she cared about.She
started developing Epione,a device that tests protein in body fluid samples to detect opioid
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"Many people need opioids and end up with serious addictions,"she said."Physicians don't
have any easy tools to detect opioid addiction at an early stage."
Additionally,Rao launched an Al-based,anti-cyberbullying app called Kindly in May
2020."You type in a sentence,and it's able to pick a word or phrase out if it's bullying,and it
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