少年当自强！美国11岁男孩当旧货店老板 立志成为一名英雄
少年当自强！美国11岁男孩当旧货店老板 立志成为一名英雄

Obocho Peters is a fifth-grader on a mission to make sure those who are less fortunate are able to dress to impress. With that in mind, the 11-year-old boy from Brooklyn, New York, runs Obocho’s Closet, a thrift store selling affordable donated clothes and shoes for kids for under $10.
The project first started in 2018 as an online thrift shop, and in December Obocho opened his first local store in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. “It makes me feel like the hard work I’ve been doing in this community. It finally paid off,” he said.
Obocho was able to get his dream off the ground thanks in part to a GoFundMe page, which explained the inspirational backstory to his mission. The student wrote that after seeing Avengers: Infinity War, he asked his mom Sasha Peters for eight toys from the film. When Peters said she couldn’t afford the toys, Obocho took matters into his own hands, selling clothes and shoes he no longer wore to pay for them himself.
“I realized that other families must face these same challenges when taking care of their children,” he wrote. “That idea turned into the mission I have today — to help the community grow.” “I was inspired by all the superheroes helping to make the world a better place,” he added. “I wanted to be a hero myself by helping my mom.”
Peters, a single mom, helped her son launch his website and signed him up for business classes after school. “You have to nurture kids when they come up with ideas and you have to pay attention to everything that they say because they’re telling you how to groom them to be a better version of themselves,” she said.

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1.Who will be potential consumers in Obocho’s Closet?

A Street cleaners.

B Servers in the community.

C Primary school students.

D The elderly in the nursing home.

解析：选C。推理判断题。根据文章第一段第二句With that in mind, the 11-year-old boy from Brooklyn, New York, runs Obocho’s Closet, a thrift store selling affordable donated clothes and shoes for kids for under $10.可知，名为“Obocho衣橱”的旧货店，低价出售童装包括衣服和鞋子，所以推测小学生会是该店的潜在消费者，故选C。

2.What partially inspired Obocho to go in for business？

A Working for the community.

B The backstories on GoFundMe.

C The film Avengers: Infinity War.

D His education at school.

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据文章第三段第一句Obocho was able to get his dream off the ground thanks in part to a GoFundMe page, which explained the inspirational backstory to his mission.可知，奥波乔能够开启他的梦想，部分归功于GoFundMe的网页针对他的使命阐述了鼓舞人心的背景故事，故选B。

3.What kind of person was Obocho according to Paragraph 3?

A Open-minded.

B Self-confident.

C Optimistic.

D Independent.

解析：选D。推理判断题。根据文章第三段可知，Obocho讲述了他开店的初衷，看完《复仇者联盟3：无限战争》后要求妈妈给他买电影里的玩具，但妈妈说买不起，所以他就想到把自己不穿的衣服和鞋子拿去卖，然后换钱来买玩具，由此可以看出他是一个很自立的人，故选D。

4.Obocho’s success should attribute to many factors EXCEPT ________.

A his family education

B his growth experiences

C after-school educational courses

D the help from other rich families

解析：选D。细节理解题。根据文章全文可知，Obocho的成功应该归功于许多因素，其中包括家庭教育，他本人的成长经历以及课外商务教育课程，文中未提及来自其他富裕家庭的帮助，故选D。