Read the excerpt below from the Yung Wing's book My Life in China and America published in 1909.
But my knowledge of English came to my rescue. My sister told the head reaper that I could speak, read and write English. This awakened the curiosity of the reaper.
He beckoned me to him and asked me whether I wouldn't talk some "Red Hair Men" talk to him. He said he never heard of such talk in his life. I felt bashful and
diffident at first, but my sister encouraged me and said "the reaper may give you a large bundle of rice sheaf to take home." This was said as a kind of prompter. The
reaper was shrewd enough to take it up, and told me that if I would talk, he would give me a bundle heavier than I could carry. So I began and repeated the alphabet
to him. All the reapers as well as the gleaners stood in vacant silence, with mouths wide open, grinning with evident delight. A few minutes after my maiden speech
was delivered in the paddy field with water and mud almost knee deep, I was rewarded with several sheaves, and I had to hurry away in order to get two other boys
to carry what my sister and I could not lug Thus I came home loaded with joy and sheaves of golden rice to my mother, little dreaming that my smattering knowledge
of English would serve me such a turn so early in my career. I was then about twelve years old. Even Ruth with her six measures of corn did not fare any better than I
did
Select the sentence that best identifies the purpose of the excerpt.
O To express the parrator's dislike of eating corn, rice, and grains.
Ỏ To persuade the reader that there is little benefit to being multilingual.
O To inform the reader about how his employer, the reaper, did not appreciate when he spoke English.
O To inform the reader how speaking English helped the narrator earn a good living for his family.