Questions 11-16
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
11 When was Eyesaver founded?
A 15 years ago
B 30 years ago
C 60 years ago
12 What was the original aim of the program?
A to offer common equipment
B to offer medication to children with eye diseases
C to offer operational help to people who had eye problems
13 The main funding comes from
A monthly donation.
B donation from rich people.
C money collected on the street.
14 What does the speaker expect listeners to provide?
A glasses for the patients
B money donation
C voluntary work
15 What it the main purpose of this program?
A to show people their donation can make a difference
B to show people how easily eye problems can be cured
C to educate people about common eye diseases
16 Eyesaver advertises for program through
A computers.
B recordings.
C training.
Questions 17-20
What role does each of the following organsisations play for the development of Eyesaver?
Write the correct letter, A-F, next to Question 26-30. A gain more donation B involve more children in need C earn support from colleges D help look for equipment manufactures E take the reptation to a higher level F recruit and support staff
17 National Vision Funding Group …………………………….. 18 Eye for the Future 19 Sam’s Eyecare Institution 20 Youth Health
Keys
B
A
C
A
A
B
E
D
C
F
Transcript
Speaker: Section 2: You will hear a man introducing a charity to a group of listeners.
Speaker: Hello everyone, thanks for attending tonight’s event. Let me start with the early history of our charity, EyeSaver.
Speaker: EyeSaver was founded by retired optometrist Timothy Gaines. I have spent much of my working life at EyeSaver. I am 60 years old now and I started working for this organisation 15 years ago when I left a corporate position to help people with eye problems. Now our charity has been helping people for three decades.
Speaker: You may know that we are now doing various other things to help people with eye problems. That includes medications for children with eye diseases and operational help to those in the public who have eye problems. But when Mr. Gaines just founded EyeSaver, he wanted the programme to be able to offer common eye equipment to those who needed it.
Speaker: We receive occasional donations from corporations and charity groups. Now we have over 1,500 volunteers who work on the streets with the little red donation boxes which many of you are familiar with. And this is the main source of funding for us. Besides, we are planning to work to secure donations from wealthy benefactors.
Speaker: Many people are passionate about charity cause and have been enquiring how to donate money to us. I really appreciate that. But our main need is to collect glasses for our patients. Many of you have multiple pairs of old glasses in your possession and we encourage you to gather these pairs which you no longer need and donate them to our cause. In doing this, you will be able to make sure that someone else can see better. Most of us cannot imagine a life in which we are unable to see well. This is why your eyeglass donations are so critical to our mission and, as a side note, we offer full-time positions. Let me know if you are interested.
Speaker: Our goal is to make people aware that even the smallest of donations can help change a person’s life. So your donation can be a turning point for them. The other day, when I was talking to some people on the street, they were surprised to find out how easily some eye problems can be cured. And I am proud to say that our next programme will aim at educating people about common eye diseases. We are able to prevent many fatal eye problems.
Speaker: In order to publicise our charity programme, we surely need to do some advertising. When we first started our programme, we used computers to create awareness for our cause. For instance, promoting seminars in which we informed people as to how they could help us to solve eye problems. But in recent years, the main means of advertising our programme is through audio recordings. We have found it cost efficient and effective. It’s good to know that many of our staff are recommending our programme to their friends and colleagues. But I am afraid that our training cannot show people the whole picture of our programme.
Speaker: Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 17 to 20.
Speaker: Now listen and answer questions 17 to 20.
Speaker: Finally I would like to tell you about some organisations which have played important roles in the development and success of EyeSaver.
Our affiliation with the National Vision Funding Group has allowed us to gain fame and to become even more significant, so many people around the country are coming for our services.
Our association with the iForTheFuture organisation has allowed us to run cooperative ads by which we seek producers of equipment to work with us. Meanwhile some of our staff has been sent to this organisation for some special training. Their skills should be improved very soon.
Also we have had a long time cooperation with SAM’s iCare institution. Our relationship with it has given us the opportunity to link with many different academic institutions, including colleges and universities with good reputation.
And we have a similar friendship with a group called Youth Health. Our connection with that group allows us to link directly with young kids since this is a crucial stage in their growth.
We plan to contact with some colleges and hope that with their help more college students could get to know our programme.
Speaker: So as you can see we have all bases covered in linking with students as we have affiliations directly with both administrators and the students themselves. Thank you so much for your attention today. As we try to stamp out eye problems we will appreciate your donations no matter how large or how small. We believe with our efforts the world will be a brighter and more beautiful.
Speaker: That’s the end of section 2. You now have half a minute to check your answers.
