Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. |
Passage IV |
It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day. |
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to please me. I didn't scold her but chose a different approach. "These are lovely, dear, but do you realise that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" |
''No they wouldn't have", she said firmly. "Oh, yes, they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry." Well okay, mother, if your insist," she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year." |
A) proved that she had not picked the branch with the blossom
B) reminded her that she loved flowers
C) reminded her that the branch with blossoms was from a plum tree
D) proved that those blossoms would not yield any fruit
Correct Answer: C
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