A. MANY B. PLENTY C. LOT D. NUMBERREAD THE FOLLOWING PASSA...

35. A. many B. plenty C. lot D. numberRead the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 40. The date palm is a wonderful tree. People eat dates. They feed them to their animals. They use the leaves and wood to build houses. They use the wood to build boats. They make baskets from the leaves. They burn the other part; the tree so they can cook food. The date palm came from the Middle East. Seven thousand years ago, people in Syria and Egypt ate dates. They made pictures of date palm on their stone buildings. Today date palms grow in the Middle East, parts of Asia and Africa, southern Europe, and other warm parts of the world. There are more than one hundred kinds of palm trees. Most of them cannot grow in the Middle East because it is too dry. The date palm grows there very well. Hundreds of years ago people in southern Europe and Arab countries made pictures of palm trees and palm flowers on some of their buildings. Today can see these pictures in art museums. People think that the palm tree is beautiful. People thought the same thing a long time ago.