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(每日一读)2014年高考英语8月考前突破 阅读理解能力 社会生活 美国百岁老奶奶每天制作一条新裙子捐给非洲素材

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美国百岁老奶奶每天制作一条新裙子捐给非洲美国爱荷华州的莉莉安·韦伯老奶奶已经将近 100 岁了,但年纪没有成为她帮助他人的绊脚石。她每天都在不停的缝制裙子,让那些需要的孩子们有衣服穿。从 2011 年起她开始做这件事,目前已经完成了超过 840 件裙子。她的目标是 1000 件。她每天早上开始制作一条新裙子,中午休息一下,下午完成。她把制作好的裙子捐献给非洲的"小裙子"组织,这是一家专门给非洲的小女孩分发衣服的组织。 Lillian Weber is on a mission. Every day she makes another dress for a small child she'll never meet. "I could probably make two a day, but I only make one," she says. The dresses are collected and sent overseas to little girls in Africa by a Christian outreach group called "Little Dresses for Africa". "I have to be busy," says Lillian. And she's been very busy. In the past two years she's made more than 840 dresses and she plans to make 150 more by May 6th of next year. You see, by next May, Lillian will turn 100 years old and it will be her one thousandth dress. "It' s just one of those things you learn how to do and enjoy," she says. In Lillian's Scott County farm house are completed dresses for little girls, made from a pattern, but each with extra stitching and individual details, designed to give each child a little extra pride. "She personalizes them all," says Lillian's daughter, Linda Purcell. "It's not like good enough that she makes the dresses, she has to put something on the front to make it look special, to give it her touch." What started as a hobby has become a daily labor of love. Lillian says she starts work on a dress in the morning, takes a break during the midday, and puts finishing touches in the afternoon. "I just think she's somebody to look up to, somebody whose not just sitting around and fritter...

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