Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read the following passage. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D for each question. 

     Frank Buonanotte was going through some junk mail when he came across a postcard advertising a History Channel documentary. “That pile of mail had been sitting there for weeks,” he says. “But I noticed the movie was scheduled to air within the hour.” For some reason, Buonanotte, a semiretired entrepreneur, tuned in.
     Into the Fire was about firefighters, and Buonanotte was fascinated. “One segment was about what it’s like to be in a fire,” he recalls. “The smoke makes it impossible to see, you’re crawling along the floor, people are trapped in remote rooms.” The film explained how a new technology called thermal imaging could “see” through smoke and walls so firefighters could identify victims, fallen colleagues, and the source of a fire.
     But the portable cameras cost more than $10,000 each, and few fire stations could afford them. About 80,000 firefighters are injured every year in the line of duty; last year, 114 died. “But it’s not like cancer,” says Buonanotte. “A cure exists. The only reason it’s not used is lack of funds. That bothered me.”
     The documentary stuck with him. Having recently quit his day-to-day duties as founder and CEO of two companies, Buonanotte had been meeting with a life coach to figure out “what the second half of my life would be about.”
     At first, Buonanotte thought he would simply donate a few thermal imagers. He contacted the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, and one conversation led to another. Buonanotte decided to set up and run a charity, 500 for Life (he asks for at least $500, but he’ll accept any amount).
     Since its founding in 2007, the nonprofit has donated 40 cameras to fire departments in 25 states. “It’s never been easy for me to ask people for money,” says Buonanotte. “But if firefighters have the courage to go into a burning house, then I need to have the courage to ask for money to get the equipment they need.”
     The Buonanotte family absorbs the administrative costs so that all contributions can go directly to buying new cameras. In addition, the family itself donates several cameras a year, and Buonanotte travels the country to speak, solicit money, and deliver cameras —“the most rewarding part of the job.”
     Buonanotte could not have predicted the impact that the documentary would have on him and others. “Business success is good and fulfilling,” he says, “but many people end up thinking there must be more than just this. Usually, it’s giving back that makes someone feel whole and satisfies that feeling that something is missing. I’ve been able to help firefighters save more lives. It doesn’t get any better than that.”