This is the reading section for the Mattayom 3 O-NET exam for the school year 2559.
Reading Passage 1
An accountant answered an advertisement for a job with a large company. At the end of the interview, the chairman said, "One last question-what is three times seven?" The accountant thought for a minute and replied, "twenty-two."
Outside he took his calculator and realized that he should have said twenty-one. He concluded that he had lost the job. Two weeks later, however, he was offered the post.
After a few weeks, he asked the chairman why he had been chosen when he had given the wrong answer.
"You were the closest," the chairman replied.
Why did the accountant think he wouldn't get the job?
Because he gave the wrong answer.
Because he didn't use his calculator.
Because he lost contact with the chairman.
Because the chairman asked him the wrong questions.
Why did he get the job?
He was the closest friend of the manager.
He was the closest friend of the chairman.
The other candidates were worse than him.
He admitted that he gave the wrong answer.
Why is this joke funny?
The chairman was too generous.
An accountant could do simple multiplication easily.
This accountant was the only candidate for the job.
A large company offered a job to an incompetent person.
