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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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2023-11-12
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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. Wood-burn 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. O. 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,护胫), 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] Woodburn’s S. O. S. charity collected shoes by the following ways EXCEPT
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A、gathering up his friends’ stash of slightly worn sneakers
B、recycling shoes with little fault from the sporting goods store
C、collecting from the students of two high schools and the USC
D、picking up worn shoes from door to door in the town
答案
B
解析
细节题。本题考查Woodburn的慈善协会收集鞋子的途径,主要在文章的第二、三段中有所介绍。根据文意,他除了收集自己和朋友的旧鞋子,还在基督教青年会和当地体育用品商店设立捐助箱来收集旧鞋,还挨家挨户上门收集,并且在两所高中和他所在的南加州大学设立收集箱。所以[A]”收集他朋友贮藏的些许穿旧的运动鞋”、[C]”从两所高中和南加州大学的学生那儿收集”和[D]”在镇上挨家挨户地收集旧鞋”都是文中所提到的途径,故排除;而[B]”从体育用品商店回收有瑕疵的鞋子”文中没有提及,不符合文意,故为正确答案。
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