三.(2011,山东临沂) (每小 题 2分,共 10分)
Greg Woodburn, a university student, spends alot of time cleaning sports shoes. Some of them oncebelonged to him; some belonged to his friends. Butsoon the shoes will have new owners-poor childrenin the USA and 20 0ther countries, thanks to Greg'sShare Our Soles(鞋底) (S. O. S) charity.
Greg was a high school running star in a smalltown in Califomia. He had to stop running formonths because his knee was injured. 6'I startedthinking about all the things I got .from running-the health, thefriendships, and the confidence. " hesays. "And I realized there're children who don'teven have shoes. "Greg collected his own sports shoes and thencalled his friends and the town His aim was to have100 pairs by Christmas 2006. When the numberclimbed to more than 500 pairs, Greg knew that hecould collect sports shoes all year round.
Now, he has set up collection boxes in histown So far, S O. S has collected and donatedmore than 3 000 pairs of shoes. And Greg hascleaned almost all.of them "People think of it asdirty work," he says,"but I like doing it, because Ifeel happy when I'm doing it. It's not work I wantto pass on to someone else. "In just three years, Greg has started threebranches(分部) of S. O. S. , and there are more andmore sports shoes.
For many poor children who have received, theshoes mean opportunity. Two young boys insouthern California used to go to school on alternatedays(隔日) because they both shared a pair ofshoes. They were too big for one boy and too smallfor the other. Thanks to S. O. S., each brotherreceived his own pair of shoes. The boys now go toschool every day. When they graduate, they say,they will help others, just as Greg helped them
1. Who will Greg donate these sports shoes to?
2. From running, Greg got health, friendships andconfidence, and what did he realize?
3. How many pairs of shoes has S O. S. collectedand donated so far?
4. Why does Greg like to clean the donated shoes?
5. What did the two boys in southern California leam from Greg?
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