Question

[ánh tuyết nguyễn]

• You are going to read a short text. Six sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from line sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1 - 3).

                                                                              Volunteer tourism

It is hard to argue that the actual contribution to development amounts to a great deal directly. (1) __________, they have usually paid a significant fee for the opportunity to be involved in this work: money that, if donated to a local community directly, could potentially pay for a greater amount of labor than the individual volunteer could ever hope to provide. (2) __________. Hence, it is unsurprising that many academic studies allude to the moral issue of whether gap year volunteering is principally motivated by altruism – a desire to benefit the society visited – or whether young people aim to generate ‘cultural capital’ which benefits them in their careers. (3) __________.

SENTENCES:

A. Whilst volunteer tourists can get involved in building homes or schools

B. At its worst, international volunteering can be imperialist

C. Yet it also bypasses the democratic imperative of representative government and reduces development to individual acts of charity

D. However, if volunteering is largely limited to individuals of means from wealthier areas of the world

E. This is especially so in the case of gap years, in which the level of technical skill or professional experience required of volunteers is negligible

F. However, where volunteer tourism is talked up as sustainable development and the marketing of the gap-year companies merges into development thinking

G. However, the projects may play a role in developing people who will, in the course of their careers and lives, act ethically in favor of those less well-off

Answer 1

[Komorebi]

It is hard to argue that the actual contribution to development amounts to a great deal directly. (1) A. Whilst volunteer tourists can get involved in building homes or schools, they have usually paid a significant fee for the opportunity to be involved in this work: money that, if donated to a local community directly, could potentially pay for a greater amount of labor than the individual volunteer could ever hope to provide. (2) E. This is especially so in the case of gap years, in which the level of technical skill or professional experience required of volunteers is negligible. Hence, it is unsurprising that many academic studies allude to the moral issue of whether gap year volunteering is principally motivated by altruism – a desire to benefit the society visited – or whether young people aim to generate ‘cultural capital’ which benefits them in their careers. (3) G. However, the projects may play a role in developing people who will, in the course of their careers and lives, act ethically in favor of those less well-off.