Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.
A. profits | B. donations | C. volunteers | D. selling |
E. funding | F. flooded | G. appeal | |
I love charity shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, 10 everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won’t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods. The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity’s 11 to aid postwar Greece had been so successful that it had been 12 with donations. They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal.
Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the U.K. My favorite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children’s books, all 10 or 20 pence each. Most of the people working in the charity shops are 13 , although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. The shops have very low running costs: all 14 go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than £110 million a year, 15 medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money?