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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."

The mother was caught in the wrong because the daughter

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