I had once a wife and a servant and a handsome son...

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I had once a wife and a servant and a handsome son. One day I had to go to a distant city. While I was away my wife turned my son into a calf and my servant into a cow. My wife was a bad woman who had studied witchcraft When I came back home I asked my wife for my son. She said, "Your son? I don't know where he has gone."

"And my servant?" I asked. 
"He was dead," she answered. 
My sorrow was very great. I did not feel happy for a year.

One day I ordered my new servant to bring me a cow. I wanted to kill the cow for its meat. My new servant brought me the servant who was a cow now. The cow moaned so loudly that I did not kill it.

I told my servant to bring me a calf and he brought me my son who was a calf now. When the calf saw me, it was very glad. It ran up to me and rubbed its head against me. I said to the servant, "Take this calf away and bring me another."

My wife called to me, "You must kill this one. This calf is very fat." But I did not listen to her.

"Take it away," I said to my servant.

The next day, I was sitting in my room when my servant came to me and said, "O, my master, I will tell you a tale which will make you happy."

"I have a daughter who studied magic. Yesterday, when you gave me the calf I went home. I went into the house. When my daughter saw the calf she covered her face. First she cried and then she laughed."

At last she said to me, "O, my father, why do you bring a strange man into the house to look at me?"

I answered, "I did not see a man."

"This calf is your master's son," she said.

"I laugh because he is your master's son and I cry because he is a calf."

"Then I went with my servant to his house to see his daughter. is it true what you have said about the calf?"

"Yes, my master, he is your son."

"I asked her, can you give me back my son?"

My servants daughter took a bottle of water out of the cupboard. She poured some water on the head of the calf and said, "Dear calf, change into a man again."

A handsome young man stood before me. The servant's daughter then changed my wicked wife into a gazelle. My son married my servant's daughter and they were happy together.

(adapted from The Arabian Night's Entertainments by Martha A.L. Lane)

When the man came back home, he asked his wife for his son ....she answered that his son had gone away.

A. because 
B. as 
C. and 
D. so 
E. but

R. Oktaviani · Accepted Answer

Halo, Diandra. Kakak bantu jawab, ya.

Jawaban soal ini adalah "E. but".

Soal meminta untuk melengkapi bagian rumpang pernyataan berikut:

When the man came back home, he asked his wife for his son ... she answered that his son had gone away. (Ketika pria itu kembali ke rumah, dia bertanya pada istrinya mengenai anaknya ... dia menjawab bahwa anaknya sudah pergi.)

Informasi mengenai hal itu terdapat di bagian:

My wife was a bad woman who had studied witchcraft When I came back home I asked my wife for my son. She said, "Your son? I don't know where he has gone." (Istri saya adalah seorang wanita jahat yang telah mempelajari ilmu sihir. Ketika saya kembali ke rumah, saya menanyakan anak saya kepada istri saya. Dia berkata, "Putramu? Saya tidak tahu ke mana dia pergi.")

Sementara itu, arti pilihan jawabannya yakni:

A. because (karena)
B. as (seperi)
C. and (dan)
D. so (jadi)
E. but (tetapi)

Berdasarkan penjelasan tersebut, kata yang sesuai untuk melengkapinya yaitu ' When the man came back home, he asked his wife for his son but she answered that his son had gone away. (Ketika pria itu kembali ke rumah, dia bertanya pada istrinya mengenai anaknya tetapi dia menjawab bahwa anaknya sudah pergi.)

Jadi, jawaban yang tepat adalah "E. but".

Semoga membantu :)

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