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Greg Woodburn, a sophomore at the University of Southern California, spends
Greg Woodburn, a sophomore at the University of Southern California, spends
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2023-10-30
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Greg Woodburn, a sophomore at the University of Southern California, spends a lot of time cleaning sneakers. Some of them once belonged to him; some belonged to his friends. But soon the shoes will have new owners: underprivileged children in the United States and 20 other countries, thanks to Woodburn’s Share Our Soles(S. O. S.)charity.
"I started thinking about all the things I got from running—the health benefits, the friendships, the confidence, " he says. "And I realized there are children who don’t even have shoes." Woodburn gathered up his own stash of slightly worn sneakers, then put out a call to teammates and the town. His goal was to have 100 pairs by this Christmas. When the count climbed to more than 500 pairs, he decided to turn the shoe drive into a year-round endeavor.
Back then, the sneakers came from donation boxes at the YMCA(Young Men’s Christian Association)and the local sporting goods store and from door-to-door pickups. Woodburn has now set up collection boxes at two high schools, USC’s gym and recreation center, and area races, and he has started accepting adult sizes and sandals. To date, S. 0. S. has collected and donated more than 3, 000 pairs.
And Woodburn has cleaned almost all of them(his parents and trackmates help at exam time). "People think of it as dirty work, " he says. "But I like doing it. It’s inspiring. It’s not work I want to pass off to someone else. " After sorting the shoes by size, Woodburn selects the sturdiest pairs for the washing machine and the threadbare ones for recycling. The rest he piles up by the kitchen sink at his family home in Ventura, and using a scrub brush and dishwashing liquid, he gets in the zone. "As I work, I imagine who will get each pair, " he says. It takes three to five minutes to clean one pair, he estimates, and he’ll do up to 100 pairs at a time. "I try to set aside a good amount of time."
To ship the footwear, Woodburn teamed with Sports Gift, a non-profit organization that provides soccer and baseball equipment to children around the world. Keven Baxter, founder and president, says, "We’d send kids shin guards(护腿), balls, and shoes, and I’d hear that for many of these kids, the cleats(防滑鞋)were the only pair of shoes they had. They’d wear them to school and to do their chores. So Greg’s running shoes were a nice addition for us."
In just under three years, Woodburn has started three chapters of Share Our Soles: the original in Ventura, another at USC, and one at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts last January, when a student there wrote asking to get involved.
For many recipients, the shoes represent opportunity. Two young boys in Southern California attended school on alternate days because they shared a pair of shoes, held together with duct tape(胶带). They were too big for one boy and too small for the other. Thanks to S. O. S. , each brother received his own pair of shoes. The boys now attend school every day. When they graduate, they say, they will help a stranger, just as Woodburn helped them. [br] It can be inferred from the passage that______.
选项
A、Woodburn has been collecting worn shoes all the year around since the beginning
B、Woodburn’s shoes were only a nice addition for the kids with no running shoes
C、Woodburn started Share Our Soles charity at the University of Southern California
D、two boys in Southern California received not only shoes but also the spirit of helping others
答案
D
解析
由文章最后一段可知,南加州的两个男孩收到了鞋子,表示他们毕业后要像Woodburn那样去帮助陌生人,所以[D]“南加州的两个男孩不仅收到了鞋子也获得了帮助他人的精神”是正确的推断。其他三项都不符合文意,故均排除。
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