1 . LONE TREE, colorado-patanjali Rao, a 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist, who has used artificial intelligence （AI） and created apps to deal with social problems, has been named Time magazine's first-ever "Kid of the Year".

Time says Rao stood out for creating a world-wide community of young inventors and inspiring them to go after their goals. Rao insists that starting out small doesn't matter, as long as you have a passion （热爱）for it.

Rao's sense of invention started early. At age 12, she developed a portable device to discover lead in water. She has also created an app called Kindly that uses artificial intelligence to help prevent cyberbullying （网络欺凌）. It allows teens to type in a word or phrase to find out if the words they are using are bullying and lets them decide what they are sending.

She said that "Work is going to be in our generation's hands pretty soon. So if no one else is going to do it, I'm going to do it.”

Rao has partnered with schools, museums, and science, technology, engineering and math organizations, and other societies to work for thousands of other students.

In a world where science is increasingly questioned or challenged, Rao insists that devotion to science is an act of kindness and the best way that a younger generation can better the world. “We have science in everything we're involved in, and I think the biggest thing to put out there is that science is cool, innovating is cool, and anybody can be an innovator," Rao says.

"Anybody can do science.”

1. What do we know about Rao?

A．She has created apps to deal with mental problems.

B．She has set a good example for the younger generation.

C．She has been named Time magazine's "Youth of the Year”.

D．She thinks that only the younger generation can better the world.

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Time waits for no man.

B．Ups and downs make one strong.

C．Passion and devotion help to promote excellence.

D．Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

3. From which is the text probably taken?

A．A newspaper	B．A diary.
C．A travel brochure.	D．A history book.