A 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 finished the day $148 richer than they started. Instead of keeping the money, the kids decided to donate it instead.

Moms 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.

When 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!

After the two families delivered their first check for $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 donation ballooned to $205,000! Even as the COVID-19 led to shutdowns and social distancing in 2020, the lemonade stand and online fundraiser managed to get in another $10,000!

In 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!

“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 much grateful we feel to them.”

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1.How did the four children make money according to the passage?

A By selling lemonade together.

B By working for a lemonade stand.

C By working in their neighborhood.

D By doing something in a hospital.

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据第一段可知，来自俄亥俄州印第安山的四个孩子联手在他们的社区开设了一个柠檬水摊，靠卖柠檬水赚钱，赚到的钱全部捐了出去。故选A。

2.What did the moms think of the activity of donation?

A It’s meaningless.

B It’s educational.

C It’s interesting.

D It’s relaxing.

解析：选B。B 推理判断题。根据第二段可知，两位妈妈认为，这是教育孩子如何利用自己的收入从事慈善事业的最佳时机，即她们认为这非常具有教育意义，故选B。

3.What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A A kidney transplant cost lots of money.

B Hillary saved an unknown little girl.

C Beatrice’s surgery was successful.

D Hillary’s daughter hasn’t been a pupil.

解析：选C。C 推理判断题。根据第三段可知，希拉里的女儿只有6个月大时进行了肾移植。肾源供体来自希拉里，辛辛那提儿童医院医疗中心的医生、护士和工作人员帮助她们恢复了健康，由此推断她们的手术取得了成功，故选C。

4.What did Hillary’s words mean in the last paragraph?

A She couldn’t believe how much money they had raised.

B She was very appreciative of the hospital’s help. 

C She would like to know how the hospital used the money.

D She expected to continue raising money for the hospital.

解析：选B。B 推理判断题。根据最后一段So, even if we could donate 45 million, it wouldn’t even touch how much grateful we feel to them.可知，希拉里觉得，即使她们能捐赠4500万美元，也不足以表达她们对院方的感激之情，即她非常感激医院给予的帮助。故选B。