Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no – it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third son disagreed, he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfilment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but one season in the tree’s life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are – and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life – can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up. If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfilment of your fall.
Don’t judge a life by one difficult season. Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
(source: https://www.beliefnet.com)
The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to____.
A. the four sons
B. green buds
C. trees, people
D. the pleasure, joy and love
1. Luсa won’t leave here before the end of April.
=> LUCA WILL BE HERE until THE END OF APRIL.
3. They had difficulty in choosing because it all looked so good.
=> THEY DIDN’T FIND IT difficult TO CHOOSE BECAUSE IT ALL LOOKED SO GOOD.
5. Right now Betsy is in Los Angeles working for a famous star.
=> BETSY is told by a famous star to go TO LOS ANGELES TO WORK FOR
7. Lisa met her friends at her favourite restaurant, Milanos, met her friends there yesterday.
=> LISA,Whose FAVOURITE RESTAURANT IS MILANOS, MET HER FRIENDS THERE YESTERDAY.
8. The laptop needs fixing urgently. => THE LAPTOP NEEDS TO be fixedURGENTLY.
9. She thinks she might fall.
=> SHE IS AFRAID of FALLING.
10. The start of the match was 3:00. => THE MATCH started at 3:00.
14. Every time I go on holiday, the weather gets worse.
=> WHENEVER I go on holiday, the weather gets worse
16. He didn’t think and deleted the document.
=> WITHOUT thinking, he deleted the document
21. Sее you later, I hope. => I HOPE to see you later
24. What’s the time? => COULD YOU TELL me what the time is