Read the article about a family of philanthropists.
For questions 19-24, choose from the sentences A-H the one which best fits the gap.
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There are two letters which you do not need.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Department of Philanthropy
Fourteen-year-olds frequently accuse their parents of moral dereliction; parents do not frequently respond by selling their house and donating half the proceeds to villagers in Ghana. (0) But such was the response of Kevin and Joan Salwen, of Atlanta, to their daughter, Hannah. Kevin and Hannah went on to write a book, “The Power of Half,” in which they encourage other families to do something similar.
. The Salwens stood in the school chapel. They wore jeans; the school girls wore kilts. They told their story. One day in 2006, Kevin and Hannah had pulled up at a stoplight. To their left was a homeless man, to their right a guy in a Mercedes coupé. Hannah said, “Dad, if that man didn’t have such a nice car, then that homeless man could have a meal.” Kevin said, “Yes, but if we didn’t have such a nice car that man could have a meal.”
. By dinnertime, Hannah was all worked up. She didn’t want to be a family that just talked about doing good, she said. She wanted to be a family that actually did something. Kevin and Joan explained that they did a lot: they volunteered at the food bank; they wrote big checks to charities; after Hurricane Katrina, they let a family of refugees stay in their basement.
. That was annoying, so Joan said, “What do you want to do, sell the house?” And Hannah said, “Yeah! That is exactly what I want to do.” “We don’t expect anyone else to sell their house,” Hannah assured the Marymount girls, whose parents might not have appreciated a demand by their offspring to donate eight hundred thousand dollars (half the value of the Salwens’ house) to charity. “Your contribution can be different.
. If you watch six hours of TV a week, maybe you could cut that down to three hours and spend three with your family volunteering at a homeless shelter.” A girl with a ponytail raised her hand. “Have you ever regretted selling your house?” she asked. “There are some things that I miss,” Hannah said. “But it really doesn’t matter.” A woman in a red sweater asked how their friends had reacted.
. Friends had been baffled, or worse. For a while, tired of feeling like freaks, the Salwens kept the whole thing secret. Then they appeared on television, and the whole thing went public. “Most people are supportive,” Kevin told the audience, “and a few are very uncomfortable.” “When I tell people, I try so hard not to come off as boasty,” Hannah said. “I want people to feel, like, ‘That’s actually cool. I want to do something like that in my family’.” Soon afterward, Hannah and Kevin received an email from a student that, to them, made it all worthwhile. “I have dreamed of living in a huge mansion and marrying a millionaire,” she wrote. “But now, I see that the world is a largely connected community.
. Today, I took out clothes from my closets that were too small or that I didn’t wear... You’re making a difference!”
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