Weddings (婚礼) create a lot of leftover flowers. To Eleanor Love, that means more chances to collect after-wedding bouquets (花束) and give them to her lonely hospital patients, many of whom don’t often get visitors, let alone expensive flowers.
The flowers are still in good shape, and the patients are overjoyed to have them.
“I broke down and cried,” recalled patient Connie Melzer, who was recovering (康复) from a heart problem at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Medical Center in Richmond when Love walked into her room with a bouquet in early 2020.
“When you’re in hospital for six to eight weeks, it really means a lot,” said Melzer.
Love worked at the VCU Hospital as a medical student. She wanted to help ease the suffering of patients as well as learning to treat them as a student doctor.
“One of the challenges of being a medical student is that it can be very difficult to help.” said Love. “You are there as a leaner, but you don’t have the same knowledge as doctors. How can I at this stage help patients?”
So in 2019, she started The Simple Sunflower Project in Richmond, and so far has delivered (递送) more than 760 bouquets to patients. She brought her schoolmates into her project. People beyond (在……之外) the VCU community who heard about the project also joined. Now Love has more than 200 volunteers on the email list.
For each wedding, Love would organize a team of eight volunteers to help pick up the flowers when the party was over and then delivered them to patients. “It’s so satisfying to see the patients who receive our bouquets and it reminds me why we do what we do,” she said.
27. According to the passage, Eleanor Love collects after-wedding flowers for ________.
A.patients who feel lonely | B.doctors who help her |
C.women who love flowers | D.people who go to weddings |
28. The writer mentions the patient Connie Melzer to ________.
A.encourage patients to be brave |
B.ask people to buy more bouquets |
C.introduce her recovering at hospital |
D.show the influence of Love’s project |
29. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies (暗示) that ________.
A.flowers can remind people of their good old days |
B.Eleanor Love feels it difficult to continue her project |
C.it’s worth delivering flowers to patients for Eleanor Love |
D.receiving expensive flowers is a common thing for patients |
30. The best title of the passage is ________.
A.Love in and beyond VCU | B.Flowers Mean a Great Deal |
C.Deliver Flowers, Deliver Love | D.Loving Volunteers, Lonely Patients |