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Many teenagers are too young to drink, drive, or even catch an Uber – but some of them are already making a difference in the world we live in. Here are two of them.
Keiana Cavé, 18, American
In 2010, the worst oil spill in history happened in the Gulf of Mexico, which brought great trouble to the sea animals there. A lot of baby dolphins died quickly, shrimps with missing eyes appeared, and fish with strange scars were found in the near ocean then. As soon as Cavé, a fifteen-year-old girl, read the news, she decided to work on this problem. She studied what would happen when the oil on the ocean hit by the UV rays from the Sun. Soon, she found that it would lead to chemiclas that cause cancer. Now, Cavé keeps working on oil problems in other places, and she has already turned her hard work into 2 science papers which won her $1.2 million to do further research about how to separate oil from the water.
Hannah Herbst, 17, American
When Herbst was 15, she learned that her pen pal, who lives in Ethiopia, didn’t have lights at night because there’s no power supply there. This 15-year-old girl started to think about how to provide cheap energy for anyone who has the same problem in the world. When she really studied further, to her surprise, more than 1.3 billion people in the world didn’t have power supply in their life, and most of them live near either seas or rivers. Therefore, she came up with an idea called Beacon, in which something like a tube can produce energy from the ocean waves, and her very first tube has turned out to be successful. This idea won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2015. Now Herbst is going to study computer engineering when she finishes high school.
【題組】43. Which of the following is true?
(A) Both of them are from the U.S., and Herbst is a little older than Cavé.
(B) Both of the two girls work hard to make the world better.
(C) Cavé’s has made a lot of money by writing papers about sea animals.
(D) Herbst started the change by solving problems in her own country.