Question: 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 did not scold the daughter because

Options:

A) she loved flowers

B) she liked cherry blossoms

C) she did not understand why her daughter hand done so

D) She decided to indirectly make her daughter realise her mistake