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Direction: Consider text I to answer questions 01 to 04.
TEXT I
Drawing Number One
“I showed the grown-ups my masterpiece, and I asked
them if my drawing scared them. They answered, ‘Why be
scared of a hat?’ My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It
was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
5 Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so the grown-
ups could understand. They always need explanations. My
Drawing Number Two looked like this:
Drawing Number Two
The grown-ups' advised me to put away my drawings
of boa constrictors, outside or inside, and apply myself
10 instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That
is why, I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career
as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my
Drawing Number One and of my Drawing Number Two.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it
15 is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations
over and over again. So then I had to choose another career,
and I learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown almost
everywhere in the world. And, as a matter of fact, geography
has been a big help to me. I could tell China from Arizona at
20 first glance, which is very useful if you get lost during the
night. So I have had in the course of my life, lots of
encounters with lots of serious people. I have spent lots of
time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range...
which hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
Source: SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine. The little Prince. New York: Mariner Books, 1943. Translated from French by Richard Howard.
About the career change portrayed in the text, it is possible to say that the narrator was
Direction: Consider text I to answer questions 01 to 04.
TEXT I
Drawing Number One
“I showed the grown-ups my masterpiece, and I asked
them if my drawing scared them. They answered, ‘Why be
scared of a hat?’ My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It
was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
5 Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so the grown-
ups could understand. They always need explanations. My
Drawing Number Two looked like this:
Drawing Number Two
The grown-ups' advised me to put away my drawings
of boa constrictors, outside or inside, and apply myself
10 instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That
is why, I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career
as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my
Drawing Number One and of my Drawing Number Two.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it
15 is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations
over and over again. So then I had to choose another career,
and I learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown almost
everywhere in the world. And, as a matter of fact, geography
has been a big help to me. I could tell China from Arizona at
20 first glance, which is very useful if you get lost during the
night. So I have had in the course of my life, lots of
encounters with lots of serious people. I have spent lots of
time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range...
which hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
Source: SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine. The little Prince. New York: Mariner Books, 1943. Translated from French by Richard Howard.
About the career change portrayed in the text, it is possible to say that the narrator was