I. Find the odd one out A, B, C or D.
1.A. donate B. provide C. encourage D. benefit
2.A. clean B. street C. house D. wall
3.A. individual B. industrial C. essential D. environment
4.A. graffiti B. draw C. painting D. collage
5.A. homeless B. elderly C. people D. disabled
II. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense form.
1. have_You ever ( do ) ___done_______ volunteer work ?
2. Yes. I ( do ) __did_______ volunteer work last month .
3. I ( collect ) __have collected_______ hundreds of old books and clothes for street children so far.
4. My sister wants to raise funds for street children so the ( make ) ____makes____ hundreds of postcards to sell them.
5. My hobby is carving eggshells and now I ( carve ) __am carving________ nearly 100.
6. Going home from school yesterday, I ( help ) __helped______ an old man to go across the street.
7. Last Tuesday, I ( go ) ____went_______ home late because there was a traffic jams near my school.
8. At Tet, my mother and her close friends often go to the hospitals to donate cakes, sweets and ------- for the sick children there. She ( do ) _has done________ it for many years.
9. Lan never ( eat ) ____has eaten______ Banh tet . She will try some this year .
10. Linh is my close friend. We ( know ) ___have known______ each other for 5 years.
III. Put a word from the box in each gap to complete the following passage.
project
helping
do
mentoring
enjoy
raising
giving
elderly
volunteer
population
In the United States, almost everyone, at one time or another, has been a (1)......volunteer..... According to the US government statistics, about one-fifth of the American (2)........population....... does volunteer work each year. Americans have had the tradition of volunteering and (3).....helping...... one another since the early days of the country. Americans volunteer not because they are forced or paid to (4)........do.......... it. They (5)....enjoy.... it! Traditional volunteer activities include (6).......raising....... money for people in need, cooking and (7).......giving........ food, doing general labour (such as clean-up (8)........project....... and home repair), providing transportation ( such as giving rides to give the (9) ..........elderly.........), and tutoring/ (10)..........mentoring........ young people.
IV. Choose the correct word A, B or C for each gap to complete the following passage.
(1)______ January 17th, 1995, a powerful earthquake hit the city of Kobe, Japan. Many buildings (2) ________ or collapsed.
Soon after the earthquake, people in Kobe (3) _______ working together to save their city. Neighbours pulled each other out (4) _______ collapsed buildings. Ordinary people (5) ______ out fires even before the fire trucks arrived. Volunteers in Kobe organized themselves into (6) ________. They worked out a system to send (7) _________ to where it was needed. Some people (8) __________ food, water, clothes to different part of city. Some volunteers took (9) ________ of children who had lost their parents. Teams of volunteers from outside Japan helped, too.
Today, Kobe has been built. But people there still remember the outpouring of support they (10) ________ from all over the world back in 1995.
1. A. In B. At C. On
2. A. burn B. burned C. burning
3. A. to begin B. begin C. began
4. A. of B. on C. with
5. A. to put B. put C. puts
6. A. teams B. pair C. group
7. A. help B. helping C. to help
8. A. bring B. brings C. brought
9. A. part B. care C. note
10. A. receive B. received C. has received