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The avenue of limes was planted in 1815, not for beauty, though it is beautiful, but for money: the estate's owner intended to sell the timber after fifty years. By 1865 the trees had become so loved that his grandson refused to fell them, and the avenue stands to this day.
According to the text, why was the avenue originally planted?
- A. To be sold as timber after fifty years.Correct
- B. To make the estate beautiful.
- C. To mark a victory in 1815.
- D. To shade the road.
Answer: A. To be sold as timber after fifty years.
For the timber.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To make the estate beautiful.
- Beauty was not the reason given.
- C. To mark a victory in 1815.
- No victory is mentioned.
- D. To shade the road.
- Shade is not mentioned.
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