READING COMPREHENSION:
A. Who says the following?
I worry about all the terrible things that are going to go wrong. the speaker / her mom
I’m impulsive. the speaker / her mom
I see ghostly people. the speaker / her mom
I felt like I was standing at the side of a highway. the speaker / her mom
I’m left-handed the speaker / her mom
A full cup is too heavy. the speaker / her mom
I can’t read your name tag. the speaker / her mom
How’s the writing going? the speaker / her mom
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B Choose the correct answer:
1 What does the speaker and her mum have in common?
A They are optimistic.
B They are impulsive.
C They are cautious.
D They face challenges by writing stories.
2 Why didn’t the speaker pinpoint her similarity with her mum in the first place?
A Because her mum liked cartoons.
B Because her mum wrote poems.
C Because their approach to story-writing is different.
D Because the speaker used legends as her source of inspiration.
3 What is graphic pathography?
A Modern medical software.
B The practice of describing illness through illustrations.
C Digital narrative of a patient’s condition.
D A comic that shows how medicine should be ingested.
4 Why does the speaker use the metaphor of “standing at the side of a highway?”
A She recalled an accident she once had.
B She had lost control of her wheelchair.
C Her mother was having hallucinations.
D To show how helpless she felt in her effort to get attention.
5 Why did the speaker draw the picture entitled “Help for Jocelyn”?
A To convey her mom’s condition to the night hospital shift more efficiently.
B To help her mom get her medications right.
C To ask the hospital personnel to help her stand up and walk.
D To get the attention of other drivers on the highway.
6 What occurred to the speaker when her mom was moved to another ward?
A That her mom liked being addressed by her first name.
B That her mom would soon get better.
C That it was herself, not her mom, who had chosen which aspects of her condition to emphasise.
D That the pictures hadn’t helped much.
7 Which of the following issues did NOT present a problem to the speaker’s mom?
A The weight of objects.
B Hearing.
C Opening bottles.
D Using both hands.
8 What was Sam’s mom’s ultimate goal?
A To be able to talk.
B To be able to walk even with the help of a device.
C To write stories.
D To draw cartoons unassisted.
9 What is the confession that the speaker makes towards the end of the speech?
A Sometimes it was she that could see nothing but her mom’s vulnerability.
B Her drawing skills could do with some improvement.
C She didn’t always try to understand her mom’s needs.
D She didn’t find the right words to describe her mom’s condition in her stories.
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