愛的檸檬攤

安徽 周艷霞

美國俄亥俄州的四個孩子幾年前開始捐助該州的辛辛那提兒童醫院。如今，他們的檸檬水小攤和在線籌款活動已經籌集到了超過30萬美元的善款。

文章詞數311難度★★★建議用時6分鐘

1A few years ago, four kids from Indian Hill, Ohio, teamed up to open a lemonade stand in their neighborhood. The Zerbe family's two sons and the Weidner family's two daughters set up their stand and earned their first check—$148. Instead of keeping the money,the kids decided to donate it instead.

2Moms Amanda Zerbe and Hillary Weidner thought this was the perfect moment to teach their children how to be charitable with their earnings,and they didn't have to think very hard when it came to selecting an organization.

3When Hillary's daughter Beatrice was just 6 months old, she needed a kidney transplant(移植).Hillary donated one of her own kidneys to her little girl,and the doctors, nurses, and staff at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center helped them get well again.Beatrice is now a healthy,happy first?grader!

4After the two families delivered their first check of $148 to the hospital, the moms shared what they'd done on social media. Suddenly, friends, family members, and total strangers were opening their wallets and donating, too. Before they knew it, their small do?nation ballooned to $205,000! Even as COVID?19 led to shutdowns and social distancing in 2020,the lemonade stand and online fund?raiser managed to get in another$10,000!

5In 2021, the kids set a goal to raise $20,000 for Cincinnati Children's Hospital, but they didn't make their mark.Instead,they blew right past it and pulled in another $77,000!That's over$300,000 total in just three years!

6“It's crazy,”Hillary said.“I mean, it's just, there's no amount of money that we can ever raise to acquaint (使了解) what we have received from the hospital. So, even if we could donate$45 million,it wouldn't even touch how grateful we feel to them.”

Reading Check

Choose the best answers according to the text

Language Study

Discover the useful structure in the text

when it comes to...意為“當談到……時”，其中to為介詞

...and they didn't have to think very hard when it came to selecting an organization.……并且在選擇一個組織時，他們并不需要絞盡腦汁地思考。