ACKNOWLEDGED
(C.D.S. 1995)
 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 Kashmir 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. Realizing 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”.
1. What is not commonly acknowledged is that
 (a) children learn a lot from their parents.
(b) parents teach their children a great deal.
(c) parents learn a great deal from their children.
 (d) children learn a great deal inspire of their parents.
2. “The laugh was on me” means that
(a) the mother was caught in the wrong.
 (b) the daughter was wrong.
(c) people laughed at the mother.
 (d) the mother laughed at herself.
 3. What the daughter picked from the neighbour’s garden were
(a) some branches
 (b) some flowers
(c) some branches with blossoms
 (d) some branches with fruit
4. The mother did not scold the daughter because
(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.
5. 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.
ANSWERS:-
1. (c) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2. (a)
3. (c) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 4. (d)
5. (c)
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