Though Malala Yousafzai is 17, she does not use Facebook or even a mobile phone so that she can’t lose focus on her studies. She spent her summer vacation flying to Nigeria to campaign for the release of girls caught by the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram, but also worrying about her grades, which recently took a worrisome dip. She faced President Obama about American drone (无人机) policy in a meeting last year, but finds it difficult to make friends with her fellow students in Birmingham, England.
“I want to have fun, but I don’t quite know how,” she wrote in the edition of her autobiography for young readers.
On Friday, Ms. Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and she was called out of her chemistry class to hear the news.
Ms. Yousafzai began campaigning for girls’ education at the age of 11, three years before she was shot by the Taliban. The prize she received on Friday accepts what she has taken on, but also shows expectations to her: Can she truly influence the culture of her home country of Pakistan, which she cannot even visit because of threats to her safety, and where many people see her as a tool of the West?
And in an interview last August, Ms. Yousafzai said that she rarely watched television and deleted the Candy Crush game from her iPad to prevent a growing addiction. As a child in Pakistan, she had access to only a handful of books, she said, but one was a biography of Dr. King, giving her an early sense of what one activist could accomplish.
In a brief speech in Birmingham on Friday, she called the prize “an encouragement for me to go forward and believe in myself.”
24. The underlined word “dip” in the first paragraph means “________”.
A. increase    　　　　　                         B. drop
C. steady progress                                    D. pause
25. Which of the following is RIGHT about Malala according to the passage?
A. She is a good friend of President Obama.
B. She doesn’t have a mobile phone or computer.
C. She was once caught by the extremist Islamist group.
D. She once fought for girls’ education.
26. Which of the following can best describe Malala Yousafzai?
A. Self-disciplined and brave.                B. Brave and boring.
C. Determined and optimistic.                D. Easygoing and humorous.
27. This passage is aimed at telling us ________.
A. Ms. Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
B. what Ms. Yousafzai has contributed to the world
C. how a girl got the Nobel Peace Prize
D. reading a biography of Dr. King can help a person succeed
  24-27 BDAA