Reading đọc hiểu: Community Services

Read the passage carefully tick True (T) or false (F) 

Working as a volunteer can help you to meet new friends or find romance in unexpected situations.

What is volunteering?

Volunteering means giving up time to do work of benefit to the community. Volunteering can take many forms, from working with children with learning difficulties, in an animal hospital, or planting trees. Volunteers can be anyone of any ages. Students and full-time workers often manage to take part in some volunteer work.

What motivates volunteers?

In a recent survey, 20% of 18-24 year-olds and 8% of over-65s said their love lives had improved since they began volunteering. Volunteering is a way of seeing a lot of truth about someone you've just met in a short time says Mukta Das. The same poll found that nearly half of volunteers enjoyed improved health and fitness, a quarter had lost weight - especially those working with children or doing conservation projects - and two-thirds felt less stressed. So, it seems volunteering may improve your life.

Question 1.  Planting trees is not a form of volunteering work.

Question 2.   If you are old, it’s still possible for you to do volunteering work.   

Question 3. Major of students is volunteers.

Read the passage carefully tick True (T) or false (F) 

Working as a volunteer can help you to meet new friends or find romance in unexpected situations.

What is volunteering?

Volunteering means giving up time to do work of benefit to the community. Volunteering can take many forms, from working with children with learning difficulties, in an animal hospital, or planting trees. Volunteers can be anyone of any ages. Students and full-time workers often manage to take part in some volunteer work.

What motivates volunteers?

In a recent survey, 20% of 18-24 year-olds and 8% of over-65s said their love lives had improved since they began volunteering. Volunteering is a way of seeing a lot of truth about someone you've just met in a short time says Mukta Das. The same poll found that nearly half of volunteers enjoyed improved health and fitness, a quarter had lost weight - especially those working with children or doing conservation projects - and two-thirds felt less stressed. So, it seems volunteering may improve your life.

Question 4.    About 25% of volunteers have lost their weight since they began volunteering. 

Question 5. There is no way you can find romance in volunteering work.

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

 Each country has many good people who take care of others. For example, some of students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the elderly. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.

Other young volunteers go and work in the home of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do the shopping. For boys who don’t have fathers, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to basketball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things those boys usually learn from their fathers.

  Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go and play games. Some of these clubs show movies or hold short trip to the mountains, the beaches, museums, or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of students as volunteers because they are young enough to understand the problems of younger boys and girls.

What do volunteers usually do to help those who are sick or old in their homes?

What do they help boys whose fathers do not live with them? 

Which activities are NOT available for the students at the clubs?

Why do they use many students as volunteers? - Because ________.

Where don’t students often do volunteer work?