A Good Lesson

Cheung Tsai was a good-for nothing ...

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A Good Lesson

Cheung Tsai was a good-for nothing fellow. He knew that his father, old Mr Cheung was a rich man. So Cheung Tsai was very careless with his father's money and spent as much as he pleased.

When old Mr Cheung found out, he did not give his son any more money. Cheung Tsai began to think of a plan. He went to his friends and borrowed money from each of them, saying, "Don't worry. My father is so rich that I can easily pay back all the money I have borrowed from you."

Soon, he owed all his friends so much money that they refused to lend him any more. At last they began to ask him for their money back. Cheung Tsai did not know what to do, so his friends all went to old Mr. Cheung and asked him for their money back.

Mr Cheung was very angry. He gave his son two huge sacks full of dollar coins and ordered him to go to the home of each of his friends to repay the money he owed them.

Cheung Tsai walked from house to house, carrying the heavy sacks of money. At last he thought to himself, "If giving money away to people is such hard work, how much harder must it be to earn the money."

From that day onwards, he was very careful with money.

Taken from More Favourite Chinese Stories, 2004

4. Why did Mr Cheung get angry?

D. Nur · Accepted Answer

Jawaban untuk soal ini adalah:
"Mr. Cheung got angry because his son, Cheung Tsai owed all his friends so much money and he couldn't repay it by himself."

(Pak Cheung marah karena anaknya, Cheung Tsai berhutang sangat banyak pada semua temannya dan tidak bisa mengembalikan uang itu sendiri.)

Soal ini menanyakan alasan pak Cheung marah.

Untuk menjawab soalnya, ketahui isi paragraf 1 dan 2 pada teks.

Paragraf 1 menceritakan seorang pemuda boros bernama Cheung Tsai yang memiliki ayah kaya raya.

Paragraf 2 menceritakan pak Cheung tua (ayah dari pemuda itu) yang menghukum anaknya yang boros dengan cara tidak memberikan uang lagi. Namun, pemuda (Cheung Tsai) malah meminjam uang ke teman-temannya.

Sekarang, perhatikan isi kalimat 1 dan 3 di paragraf 3 berikut:

Kalimat 1
"Soon, he owed all his friends so much money that they refused to lend him any more" artinya "Kemudian, dia berhutang banyak sekali uang dari semua temannya hingga mereka menolak meminjaminya uang lagi".

Kalimat 3
"Cheung Tsai did not know what to do, so his friends all went to old Mr Cheung and asked him for their money back" artinya "Cheung Tsai tidak tahu apa yang harus dilakukan, sehingga semua temannya pergi ke pak Cheung tua dan memintanya untuk mengembalikan uang mereka".

Terakhir, perhatikan kalimat awal di paragraf 4 berikut:
"Mr Cheung was very angry" artinya "Pak Cheung sangat marah".

Berdasarkan isi paragraf 1 dan 2 serta arti kalimat di atas, dapat disimpulkan bahwa alasan pak Cheung marah adalah karena anaknya, Cheung Tsai berhutang sangat banyak pada semua temannya dan tidak bisa mengembalikan uang itu sendiri'.

Jadi, jawaban untuk soal ini adalah:
"Mr. Cheung got angry because his son, Cheung Tsai owed all his friends so much money and he couldn't repay it by himself."

(Pak Cheung marah karena anaknya, Cheung Tsai berhutang sangat banyak pada semua temannya dan tidak bisa mengembalikan uang itu sendiri.)

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