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Question 19 • English 7 - LIU Summer

Read this excerpt from Henry Ford’s autobiography, My Life and Work.From the beginning I never could work up much interest in the labour of farming. I wanted to have something to do with machinery. My father was not entirely in sympathy with my bent toward mechanics. He thought that I ought to be a farmer. When I left school at seventeen and became an apprentice in the machine shop of the Drydock Engine Works I was all but given up for lost.What can best be inferred from this excerpt?

Answer
A
Henry Ford is unable to perform the work that a farm requires.
B
Henry Ford and his father share a love of machines.
C
Henry Ford’s father disapproves of Henry’s work in the machine shop.
D
Henry Ford’s success in his apprenticeship makes his family proud.
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