X. Fill in each blank with a word from the box. It’s not uncommon in America for a person to belong to some kind of volunteer group.
feed disabled helping care parents donating how charitable
(1)____________ one’s time and services is very much a part of the American way of life. Most (2)____________ activities are organized by churches and groups around the nation and even encouraged by the government. The (3) ____________ hand is extended to the poor, the homeless and the (4) ____________. Some people work to teach youngsters (5) ____________ to read, others open up soup kitchens to (6) ____________ the homeless. Volunteers also take (7) ____________ of the disabled by making reading tapes for the blind and working in orphanages to help children without (8) ____________.
1 Donating
2 charitable
3 helping
4 disabled
5 how
6 feed
7 care
8 parents
XI. Write the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first one. 1. My father finds playing board games interesting. → My father is_________
2. He hasn’t smoked cigarettes for a month. → The last time ____________
3. That apartment is more modern than any apartments. → That apartment _____________________
4. There are over two hundred stamps in Nam’s collection. → Nam’s collection ____________________
5. I spend twenty minutes walking to school every morning. → It takes _____
6. I find losing weight very difficult. → It’s ________________
