Bloque A - Texto 2 · Inglés PAU Andalucía Ordinaria Reserva 2021

TEXT 2: THE AGED WOMAN

1 Long ago, a poor farmer lived with his aged mother in the land of a tyrannical leader who disliked weak and sick people. One day,

2 the ruler decided that old people had to die. Though the farmer loved his mother deeply, he couldn’t disobey an order from the governor

3 and so, with a heavy heart, he led his mother to the desolate mountain summit known as Obatsuyama (meaning “abandoning of the

4 aged”).

5 Along the journey, the farmer had trouble navigating the difficult paths of the mountain and his mother grew anxious at the thought

6 of her son getting lost and dying on his return. Going unnoticed by her son, she decided to make a way for him to follow by breaking

7 twigs off the trees and throwing them along the path. At last, she revealed what she had done and the farmer, moved by her actions,

8 proclaimed that he would not leave her there and both would go back to die together.

9 The farmer hid his mother at home and for a time it seemed that all was peaceful. However, again the governor ordered something

10 unreasonable: the people had to make a rope of ashes. When the woman heard the news, and with the wisdom cultivated throughout

11 her years, she asked her son to make a rope of straw and burn it on a large flat stone.

12 The governor heard what the farmer had done and wanted to know where he had acquired such wisdom. It was then that the poor

13 man revealed the whole story. The governor listened and finally recognized that the land needed more than the strength and vitality of

14 young people and abolished his cruel laws.

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The governor of the land…

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The story suggests that…

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