TEXT 1

Do you think that being helpful is always good ?

I was a nursing student in a hospital when this quite embarrassing experience happened.
Hospital regulations require that a wheelchair must be used when patients are being discharged.
Once I found a patient, an elderly gentleman, who was already dressed and sitting on the bed,
with a suitcase at his feet.
He insisted he didnt need my help to leave the hospital. I tried hard to explain to him that
this was a rule and that I was responsible for helping him. At last he reluctantly let me wheel him
to the elevator. I was surprised to learn that he was not a patient and that he was only in the
hospital to take his wife home. She had been in hospital for a week. She was in the bathroom,
changing her hospital gown when I entered the room.
I was so embarrassed that I didnt ask any further questions. I apologized and
wheeled him back to the room. His wife was very puzzled about what had happened to her
husband.
From then on, I always made sure that I knew who the patient to be offered wheelchair
help was.

1. What is the communicative purpose of the text?

a. to tell about newsworthy events of the day.
b. to give critique on an art work.
c. to share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident.
d. to describe the work of a nurse.
e. to retell past event in order to inform.
2. The word I in the first sentence of second paragraph refers to the
a. reader
b. listener
c. writer
d. publisher
e. editor

3. The word he in the third paragraph line 1 refers to

a. the writer
b. the reader
c. the elderly gentleman
d. the nurse
e. the doctor
4. The first paragraph of the text belongs to
a. identification
b. abstract
c. thesis
d. issue
e. Orientation

5. Why did the nurse feel embarrassing ?

a. she/he wheeled the wrong person.
b. she/ he was certain that the man was sick.
c. she/ he didnt do his/ her job.
d. she/ he forced the man to sit on the wheelchair.
e. she/ he entered the wrong room.
6. This text is in the form of
a. description
b. report
c. analytical exposition
d. anecdote
e. recount

7.

The third paragraph of the text refers to

a. event

b. crisis
c. argument
d. interpretive recount
e. stepped explanation
8. The last paragraph refers to .
a. re-orientation
b. coda
c. conclusion
d. twist
e. recommendation

9.

The word puzzled in fourth paragraph line 2 has similar meaning to

a. pleased
b. fascinated
c. terrified
d. confused
e. humble

TEXT 2
How would you like to find a snake in your bath? A nasty one too!
We had just moved into a new house, which had been empty for so long that everything
was in a terrible mess. Anna and I decided we would clean the bath first, so we set to, and turned
on the tap.
Suddenly to my horror, a snakes head appeared in the plug-hole. Then out slithered the
rest of his long thin body. He twisted and turned on the slippery bottom of the bath, spitting and
hissing at us.
For an instant I stood there quite paralyzed. Then I yelled for my husband, who luckily
came running and killed the snake with the handle of a broom. Anna, who was only three at the

time, was quite interested in the whole business. Indeed I had to pull her out of the way or shed
probably have leant over the bath to get a better look!
Ever since then Ive always put the plug in firmly before running the bath water.

10. What the similarity between anecdote and spoof text?

a. Both have twist
b. Both have abstract
c. Both have crisis
d. Both have orientation
e. Both have reaction

11. What was the writer felt?

a. Apprehensive
b. Startle
c. Afraid
d. Worry
e. Disappoint

12. Then I yelled for my husband, who luckily what is the synonym of underlined word?
a. Laugh
b. Scream

c. Speak
d. Call
e. Order

13. What the crisis part of the text above?

a. Always put the plug in firmly
b. Everything was in terrible mess
c. Clean the bath first, so we set to, and turned on the tap
d. A snakes head appeared in the plug-hole
e. Anna was quite interested in the whole business

14. pull her out word her refers to?

a. The writer
b. Husband
c. Anna
d. Whole business
e. She

15. Where the writer tells troubleshooting?

a. Events
b. Orientation

c. Twist
d. Crisis
e. Incident

16. Give T if the statement is true and F if it is false.

a. Anedote text use conjunction of time T
b. Anedote text use adverbs of time F
c. Anedote text use adverbs of place F
d. Anedote text use rhetoric question T
e. Anedote text use exclamation sentence T

Essay
Explain again what is Anecdote text, the generic structure, and mention the differences and
similarities between Anecdote text and Spoof text?