In the passage about Mr Khalid’s school library in Peshawar, what does the word ‘initiative’ most nearly mean?
Read the passage: When Mr Khalid became head teacher of a government school in Peshawar, the library was a single dusty cupboard holding about forty outdated textbooks. He asked parents, former pupils and local shopkeepers to donate books, and within a year the collection had grown to more than two thousand titles. Older students volunteered to catalogue the books and run a lending desk during lunch breaks. Teachers noticed that pupils who borrowed regularly began to write longer and more confident essays. The initiative proved so successful that two neighbouring schools sent staff to observe how it worked. Mr Khalid insists that the credit belongs to the community, which responded far more generously than he had dared to hope.
Correct answer C. A new plan or project started to improve something
The initiative refers back to Mr Khalid's book-donation scheme, so the word means a new plan or project begun to improve a situation.
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