In Europe many people died during the Second World War . As a result , at the end of the war there were many orphans there. A man called Herman Gmeiner wanted to help these children . His idea was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home .And he wanted them to have care and kindness of parents . Gmeiner asked people to give him some money. With this money he built the first SOS Children’s Village at Imst, in Austria. It opened in 1949. This is how the SOS Children’s Village started . The letter SOS stand for “Save Our Souls” .This means “Please help us!” An SOS Children’s Village gives help to orphans .
Hermann Gmeiner’s idea for helping orphans soon spread all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages . Today the children from the first villages are grown up . Now some of the them work in other SOS Children’s Villages .
In SOS villages orphans live in family groups . There are several houses in each village. The biggest villages have 40 t0 50 houses !Between 7 to 10 children live in a house .A woman lives with each group of children and look after them . She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks for them and makes a comfortable , happy home for them.
Of course , the children don’t spend all their time in the village. They go to school , they go out with their friends and they go into town. But the village gives them a home ------sometimes for the first time in their lives .
11.Which of the following came last?
A．People gave Gmeiner some money.
B．There were many orphans at the end of the war.
C．Gmeiner built the first SOS Children Village with the money people gave him
D．A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help the orphans
12. An orphan is a child _______.
A. who has no parentsB. who has no sisterC. who has no children D .all of the above
13. We can conclude from the article that the money for helping the SOS villages
mainly comes from _______.
A. people in general
B. special organizations
C. the orphans themselves
D. government
14. Which of the following can best summarize the work a woman in an SOS village does for each group of children?
A. She lives with each group of children
B. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness
C. She looks after them
D. She cook meals for them
15. Herman Gmeiner built the first SOS Children village _______.
A. because he wanted orphans to have a home
B. because he wanted orphans to have the care and kindness of parents
C. because he wanted to earn some money
D. both Aand B
