Question

[Nguyễn Giang]

Choose the correct answer A, B, c or D to fill each blank In the following passage.

Each year volunteers from England work abroad: teachers, nurses, engineers, and people with special skills. They do not go for money. Volunteers from Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) receive the (17)__________  pay as a local colleague.

VSO first (18) __________ in 1958 when 14 young school leavers went away for a year. Only three years later there were 176 volunteers in 25 different countries, and ten years later there were 15,000 volunteers. At first, almost everyone (19)__________young, and without very much experience. But in the late 1960s, VSO reduced the number of young people, and more and more older, experienced people with different skills went abroad.

Now more than 20,000 people from England have worked abroad as volunteers, some are young, (20)__________are old. Abroad they live simply with the local people, and they return (21)__________ England with great understanding of other people in other parts of the world.

 17.    A. like | B. same | C. similar | D. average
 18.    A. was starting | B. has started | C. started | D. starts
 19.    A. was | B. is | C. were | D. are
 20.    A. other | B. another | C. the other | D. others
 21.    A. in | B. to | C. at | D. for