Semester 1 Reading Test

Read the text and choose the correct answer.

HELP OUT AT YOUR LOCAL FOOD BANK

We need volunteers to operate food banks in our area. Traditionally, food banks gave food to the homeless but, in these days of low wages and high prices, even some families with parents in work need them. We are not asking for financial help. The food is provided by supermarkets, charities, schools and other organisations. Local business leaders have helped to finance our centres. What we need from our volunteers is time. We need people to check that the food isn’t out of date, pack it in boxes and, most importantly, chat with the people who come into the centres. We will train you to give help and advice to people with serious problems as well as providing addresses and phone numbers of government funded organisations that people can contact if they need emergency financial help for debts or rent.

What will volunteers be expected to do?                                         [Give their time to support the people, Provide training to the people who come, Contact government organisations, Prepare sandwiches and simple meals]

Read the text and choose the correct answer.

HELP OUT AT YOUR LOCAL FOOD BANK

We need volunteers to operate food banks in our area. Traditionally, food banks gave food to the homeless but, in these days of low wages and high prices, even some families with parents in work need them. We are not asking for financial help. The food is provided by supermarkets, charities, schools and other organisations. Local business leaders have helped to finance our centres. What we need from our volunteers is time. We need people to check that the food isn’t out of date, pack it in boxes and, most importantly, chat with the people who come into the centres. We will train you to give help and advice to people with serious problems as well as providing addresses and phone numbers of government funded organisations that people can contact if they need emergency financial help for debts or rent.

Where does the money to build food banks come from?                                     [Donations fro volunteers, Businessmen and women from the area, Supermarkets, charities and schools, Government funded organisations]

Read the text and choose the correct answer.

BE A PART OF YOUR LOCAL NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

Would you like to play a bigger part in helping your community? Why not sign up to join a neighbourhood watch scheme? Being part of a neighbourhood watch scheme in your area makes you feel safer because you know other people are keeping an eye out for any suspicious behaviour and reporting it to the authorities.

If you join up, you will receive emails with reports of burglaries or other problems in your area. These will also give advice on things such as securing your home at night or when you are out and what to ask if people come to your door claiming that they are collecting money for charities.

In addition, we are trying to persuade the government to make funding available for burglar alarms for the less well-off. At the moment this hasn’t been offered but we are hoping that the situation might change if more people join a neighbourhood watch scheme and sign our petition.

Which of these subjects will not be included in emails from neighbourhood watch?                                         [Problems close to where you live., Questions to ask to check the identity., How to get a burglar alarm., How to keep your house safe.]