Exercise 6: 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 (1) pay as a local colleague.
VSO first (2) 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 (3) 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, (4) are old. Abroad they live simply with the local people, and they return (5)
England with great understanding of other people in other parts of the world.

1. A. like B. same C. similar D. average
2. A. was starting B. has started C. started D. starts
3. A. was B. is C. were D. are
4. A. other B. another C. the other D. others
5. A. in B. to C. at D. for