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This text is for questions 07 - 10
The Hen with the Silver Eggs
One day, in an Arabian city, a woman went to the
market and bought a beautiful L™ A few days later to
her surprise the hen she bought laid a silver egg. If the
hen could only be persuaded to lay more than one egg
each day, the woman was sure she would never have to
work again.
So the woman decided to make the hen eat more,
so that it could lay more eggs. But the only result was
that the hen died of indigestion and did not lay more
eggs at all.
UN-SMA-06-07
Paragraph 3 mostly discusses about ...
A. the hen's eggs
B. what the woman did to her hen
C. what the hen did for the woman
D. what the hen eats to lay more eggs
E. why the woman wanted to get more eggs
UN-SMA-06-08
The hen died because it ...
A. ate nothing
B. ate too much
C. laid more eggs
D. was badly injured
E. was forced to lay. eggs
UN-SMA-06-09
From the text we may conclude that the woman was ...
A. active
B. miserly
C. greedy
D. furious
E. dangerous
UN-SMA-06-10
"If the hen could only be persuaded.... " (Paragraph 2}
The underlined word means ....
A. commanded
B. influenced
C. dangerous
D. brought
E. told