Question

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. same B. similar C. average D. like
2. A. starts B. was starting C. started D. has started
3. A. were B. is C. are D. was
4. A. another B. the other C. other D. others
5. A. at B. in C. for D. to
Cho em lời giải thích tại sao chọn với ạ 

Answer 1

THAM KHẢO:

1. A (vì ở trong đoạn văn có từ ''as''. Công thức là ''S + V + the same + N (có hoặc không) + as + O'')

2. C (vì trong đoạn văn có dấu hiệu thì quá khứ đơn ''in 1958'')

3. D 

4. D

5. D