'SORRY MADAM, LOOKING AFTER THE GARDEN IS NOT MY DUTY.'A. HE APOLO...

45. 'Sorry madam, looking after the garden is not my duty.'A. He apologized for not looking after the garden.B. He promised to look after the garden.C. He said that he was not responsible for looking after the garden.D. He asked me if looking after the garden was his duty.Read the passage, and then choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause great damage tohim. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which someparents make. Generally, the child will understand very well what the parents expect, and will fail. Unrealisticparental expectations can cause great damage to the children. However, if parents are not unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are hopeful in asensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well especially if the parents are very supportive of theirchildren.Michael Smiths is very lucky. He is very fond of music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him toconcerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons. Although Michael's father plays the trumpet in a largeorchestra, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.Michael's friend, Winston Maier, however, is not so lucky. As both his parents are successful musicians,they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are, and so they enterhim in every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. "When I was at your age, Iused to win every competition I entered," Winston's father tells him. Winston is always afraid that he willdisappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.