Task 3. Answer the following questions.

(Trả lời các câu hỏi sau.)

1. What was life like in the author's village many years ago?

2. Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortages?

3. How did the children help improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?

4. What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?

5. What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?

Trả lời:

1. It was poor and simple.

2. Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.

3. They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops. They also helped to grow cash crops for export.

4. He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children brought home from technical high schools or colleges.

5. He told his grandchildren, “Study harder so that you can even do more for the village than your parents did”.