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       3. The membership fee used to be _____ pounds but you can                    Charity benevolence seems to have had its origins when warriors
visit the land and _____ sites free provided it doesn't interfere with       tramped off to the Crusades, leaving their possessions in the care of a
_____ or _____ .                                                             trusted friend. Trust, at any rate, remains the basis on which charities
                                                                             rest. Charities today raise and spend money as any business does. But
       C 1. The charity became well known in the _____ . It was one          there is one important difference. Unlike company directors, charity
of the first charities to sell _____ goods in its own _______ .              trustees must not make any profit for themselves.
       2. Its policy is to keep _____ down so that the maximum                      Giant fund-raising events of the eighties cast charity in a glare
amount of money reaches those in _____ .                                     of publicity. People began to ask questions: were the fund-raising
                                                                             methods legitimate? Was the money raised well spent? And why, in
      READING                                                                this age of universal welfare, did we need charities at all? The questions
     Read this text about charities and answer questions 1–3
                                                                             remain to be answered.
below.
       Charity once meant love or affection, but in late twentieth-                1. Where do you think the text comes from:
century Britain its meaning has been transformed. Today charity stands                 a) a novel;
for big business. Charities employ 200,000 people, account for as                      b) a charity's publicity leaflet;
much as four per cent of Britain's gross domestic product, and exceed                  c) a newspaper.
in scale that most ancient and widespread of all industries, farming.              2. What title would you give to the piece:
       The influence of charities reaches everywhere. Their massive                    a) Where charity is, there love is;
spectaculars get privileged time on the nation's television screens.                   b) The changing face of charity;
Spokespersons lobby for every imaginable good cause, from the                          c) Charities? We can do without them.
environment to the Third World, poverty to disease, religion to                    3. Which charities/charitable causes does the text refer to?
education, childhood to old age.
       Charities run our lifeboats and provide other vital emergency               COMPREHENSION
services through the Red Cross and St John Ambulance Brigade. They                 Now read the text again and decide whether the statements
are, too, the human guardians of the animal world, caring especially         below are true or false. Correct those that are false, and underline
for those great British favourites, donkeys, dogs and birds.                 the sections in the text which show the others are true. Note that
       Without charities a great many unfortunate people would be            one part of a sentence may be true and the other false.
even worse off: old soldiers, battered women, the deaf, the dying, the              1. Charity is like big business nowadays because it involves
blind, the homeless, the suicidal, sufferers from every rare and common      large sums of money…
disability.                                                                         2. ... and charities make a profit for the employees.
       Britain raises more money for medical research through charities             3. TV companies provide time for appeals on behalf of all kinds
than it does through the Government's Medical Research Council. One          of causes.
charity, the National Trust, dominates the endless task of preserving the           4. Charities improve the position of many unfortunate people.
nation's heritage. Others are rebuilding the finances of our universities,          5. There are charities to help women who have been beaten by
and in a few years have raised more than £350 million for Oxford and         their husbands and people who think of killing themselves.
Cambridge alone.                                                                    6. The Government provides most of the money for medical
                                                                             research.

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