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       7. Big charity events in recent years have brought charities to          LISTENING
public notice ...                                                              1. T 5 Before you listen, discuss these points with another
       8. ... although people wondered whether the methods employed       student.
to raise money were the right ones.                                             1. How do you feel when you see a beggar in the street? Do you
                                                                          always give money? How do you feel if you don't?
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                                                                                2. When charities ask you for money, which feelings are they
     Complete the text, inserting the definite article 'the' in the       appealing to?
spaces, only where it is essential.                                             3. Look at the chart below. Which categories would charities
       Why should we have ____(1) charities at all? In an age when        approach to get the most money?
people regard _____(2) social benefits as a right, why should things as
central to ______(3) nation's life as _____(4) education and ______(5)          rich neighbourhood___            poor neighbourhood___
health depend to any extent on _____(6) charity? People expect                  young___                         old___
_____(7) state to provide. A recent survey showed that _____(8)                 male____                         female____
ninety per cent thought ______(9) state, not ______(10) charity,                married___      single___        widow___       widower___
should look after those in _______(11) need. And _______(12)                    under 50___     50-60___         60-70 ___      over 70____
random pattern of ______(13) charity services shows _______(14)
charity alone could never replace ______(15) state as provider. If
________(16) Britain's welfare were entirely left to _____(17) whims            Now listen to an interview with Bob Howard, an expert on
of charitable giving: ______(18) country's animal pets would live like    fund-raising, and complete the chart. How far do your answers
______(19) lords, while its mentally-ill people roamed _____(20)          above coincide with his?
streets.
       According to ______(21) experts, _______(22) perfect charity            2. Now listen to the conversation again. In each question,
from _______(23) point of ____(24) view of someone trying to raise        choose the correct answer from the choices given.
money from _______(25) legacies would be one for terminally ill                 1. Bob thinks charities are justified in shocking people:
donkeys adrift in a lifeboat, because ________(26) nursing care,                a) because anything is justified in a good cause;
_____(27) animals and ______(28) lifeboats are ______(29) three                 b) because you have to adopt Machiavellian methods to persuade
things that most interest _____(30) people making ______(31) today's      people to part with their money;
wills.                                                                          c) by making use of advertisements for commercial products;
       Such eccentric patterns of _____(32) giving would clearly make           d) if their advertising enables them to collect more money.
a very unreliable base for ______(33) nation's welfare. But that does           2. What persuades people to give money to help those suffering
not mean there is not still an important place for ____(34) charity in    from an illness is that they:
______(35) modern world. No bureaucrat will ever see _____(36)                  a) feel sorry for them;
need for a donkey sanctuary in Penge or a hospice for ______(37)                b) feel they are partly responsible;
dying in Scunthorpe. But some local person surely will. And who                 c) are not sure whether they feel pity or fear;
would deny such people _____(38) chance to do _____(39) good to                 d) put themselves into the sufferer's situation.
______(40) general public in their own way?


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