| Direction: Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
| Passage I |
| 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 at 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 realize 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 you insist,' she finally conceded, 'but they were plums last year'. |
A) she loved flowers
B) she liked cherry blossoms
C) she did not understand why her daughter had done so
D) she decided to indirectly make her daughter realize her mistake
Correct Answer: D
Solution :
In the passage, last sentence of the second paragraph means the same. Mother was trying to realize the mistake of her daughter indirectly, because she knew that her daughter had bring the branches of blossom to make her happy she did not wanted to make her daughter disharted
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