Trusting the charities we give to - Unit 3

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Close-up C2 Workbook, National Geographic Learning

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

TOLERATE

POVERTY

REGARD

APPROPRIATE

REPUTE

LAW

FRAUD

TRUST

People contribute to charities because they find some issues in society (1) ___ . They are appalled by the disparity of wealth that has resulted in (2) ___ fellow citizens and cannot abide the blatant (3) ___ for human life that governments are sometimes guilty of. But what happens when a charity is accused of corruption, favouritism or the (4) ___ of funds? Fortunately, there are watchdogs monitoring charities whose behaviour is somewhat (5) ___ . Endeavouring to warn the public about charities that operate (6) ___ , one such watchdog in the US exposed four cancer charities, all of which were operated by one man. He stood accused of spending donations on friends and family members, rather than cancer patients, and submitting (7) ___ financial records to tax authorities for decades. What's encouraging, though, is that watchdogs and charity evaluators are tracking and reporting on charities' activities so that the public does not become (8) ___ of them.

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