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The old man did not say anything but he B. Treat our parents well if we want to live
continued working until he fell inside the box happily.
C. Working hard is not everything in our
and died. At once, the money disappeared,
life.
and the box began to fill up with dead
D. Grandfather should be asked as we want
grandfathers.
to.
The farmer had to pull them out and burry
them. To do this, he had to spend all the money Text for questions number 43 to 45.
he had collected. When he had used up all the There are two very common types of
money, the box broke and the farmer was just calendars, one determined by the sun and the
as poor as he was before. moon. The solar calendar is based on the solar
year. Since the solar year is 365.2422 days long,
39. What happened when the farmer’s wife Solar calendars consist of regular years of 365
dropped an apple into the box? days and have an extra day every fourth year,
A. He kept it in his house. or leap year, to make up for the additional
B. She cleaned it. fractional amount. In a solar calendar, the
C. The box began to fill up with apples. waxing and waning of the moon can take place
D. The box began to fill up with coin. at various stages of each month. The lunar
calendar is synchronized to the lunar month
40. What is the main idea of paragraph 1?
rather than the solar year. Since the lunar
A. A poor farmer found a big box in his field.
month is twenty-nine and a half-days long,
B. A poor farmer took a big box home.
most lunar calendars have alternating months
C. A poor farmer cleaned a big box with his
of twenty-nine and thirty days. A twelve-month
wife. lunar year thus has 354 days, eleven days
D. A poor farmer and his wife kept a big box shorter than a solar year.
in their house.
43. What is the text about?
41. How did the farmer become rich?
A. Very common types of calendars.
A. By selling apples.
B. Two very common types of calendars.
B. By dropping an apple and a coin into the
C. Calendars determined by the sun.
box.
D. Calendars determined by the moon.
C. By dropping hundreds and hundreds of
dollars into the box. 44. What can be inferred from the text?
A. The solar calendar is based on the moon.
D. By collecting hundreds and hundreds of
B. The lunar calendar is based on the sun.
dollars from the box
C. A twelve-month lunar year is longer than
42. What is the moral value we can get from the solar year.
story? D. The lunar calendar is not synchronized to
A. Never live with grandfather. the solar year.
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