Question

passage 1
the farmer and the peasant
there once lived a well - to - do farmer and opposite his house lived a poor peasant; and the peasant thought if he carried on his cultivation just as the farmer, he might get more food. so every day he visited the farmer’s house and heard what work he would do the next day. he imitated the farmer exactly: he plowed and sowed and transplanted when the farmer did and the result was good, for that year he got a fine crop. so he resolved to continue to copy the farmer.
the selfish farmer suspected what the peasant was doing and did not like it, so he resolved to teach the peasant to mind his own business. in january they both planted sugar cane, and when the crop was half grown the peasant heard the farmer give orders to put the leveler over the crop and break it down. this was only a pretense, but the peasant went away and crushed his sugar cane crop. it turned out that each root of the peasant’s sugar cane then sent up a number of shoots and in the end he had a much heavier crop than the farmer. the farmer continued with his tricks and soon the peasant was sowing roasted pulse. yet the few seeds of the peasant’s which germinated, he produced such fine plants that when he came to thresh, he had more grain than the farmer. so in a few years, the peasant became the richer man.
passage 2
the farmer and the peasant
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select the correct answer from the drop - down menu.
read the sentence from passage 1.
he imitated the farmer exactly: he plowed and sowed and transplanted when the farmer did and the result was good, for that year he got a fine crop.
the word imitate suggests the peasant wants to be as successful as the farmer
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Explanation:

In the sentence, the peasant copies the farmer's actions (plowing, sowing, transplanting at the same time as the farmer) and this leads to a good crop. The word "imitate" here shows the peasant is trying to replicate the farmer's methods to achieve similar success (getting a fine crop, later becoming richer). The option "the peasant wants to be as successful as the farmer" aligns with this context as imitating the farmer's actions is a means to gain the same success the farmer has.

Answer:

the peasant wants to be as successful as the farmer