31. Greg Woodburn, a university student, spends a lot of time cleaning sports shoes. Some of them once were his;some were his friends'. But soon the shoes will have new owners, poor children in the USA and20 other countries, thanks to Greg's Share Our Soles (鞋底) (S. O. S)charity (慈善团体).
Greg was a high school running star in a small own in California. He had to stop running for months because his knee hurt badly. "I started thinking about all the things. I got from running, the health, the friendships and the confidence," he said. "And I realised there were children who didn't even have shoes."
Greg collected his own sports shoes and then called his friends and the town. His aim (目标) was to have 100 pairs by Christmas. When the number climbed to more than 500 pairs, Greg knew that he could collect sports shoes all the year round.
Now he has set up collection boxes in his town. So far, S. O. S has collected and donated (捐赠) more than 3, 000 pairs of shoes. And Greg has cleaned almost all of them. "People think of it as dirty work," he says, "but I like doing it, because I feel happy when I'm doing it. It's not work I want to pass on to someone else."
In just three years, Greg has started three branches (分部) of S. O. S and there are more and more sports shoes.
For many poor children, receiving the shoes means opportunity (机会). Two young boys in southern California had to go to school on alternate days (隔日) because they both shared a pair of shoes. They were too big for one boy and too small or the other. Thanks to S. O. S, each brother received his own pair of shoes. The boys now go to school every day. When they graduate (毕业), they say they will help others, just as Greg helped them.
1. Greg will donate these sports shoes to __________________.
2. From running Greg got health, friendships and confidence, and he realised __________________.
3. According to the passage, S. O. S has collected and donated __________________ pairs of shoes.
4. Greg likes to clean the donated shoes because __________________.
5. What did the two boys in southern California learn from Greg?
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They said they would __________________.