FIND-THE- FICTION: WHICH ARE THE WRONG

STATEMENTS? PUT AN X AT THE END OF THE WRONG

STATEMENTS.
1. Mr Lis mother is still alive.
2. Mr Li uses a pair of binoculars to see the
harbour.
3. There were 68 ships on that day.
4. Mr Li bought a pair of binoculars for his
mother, Ah-Ma
5. Mr Lis car is a Mercedes Benz.
6. Helen is Mr Lis mother.
7. Mr Lis son is at Cambridge University.
8. Helen calls her husband, Mr Li by the
name of Edward.
9. Ah- Ma wants her eyes to be cut with a
knife.
10.Mr Li is concerned about her mothers
eyesight.
11.Ah Ma has nine children, 34 grandchildren
and 17 great grandchildren.
12.Ah-ma is interested in the binoculars
because she could see as far as Tanjung
Rhu
13.Mr Lis father owned a shipyard in Tanjung
Rhu.
14.Mr Li played in the shipyard with his sister
Ah-May and Ah-Lian.
15.Ah-Ma went to the altar room to tell her
late husband about going to Mr Lis office.
16.Ah-Ma (Mr Lis mother) and Ying were
arguing over some joss sticks.
17.Ying calls her grandmother, Popo.
18.Ying speaks English with her grandmother.
19.Mr Lis fathers photograph was lit by a
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pair of electric candles because Ah Ma

nearly set fire to the whole altar when she
used real candles.
20.Ah Ma called Mr Li, Ah Wah.
21.Mr Li missed his father but he could not
express it.
22.Ah Ma went to Mr Lis office but she could
not see the ships because of her poor
eyesight.
23.When Mr Li forces his mother to look
through the binoculars, she could see the
ships in the harbour.
24.Ah Ma recalled seeing Mr Li walking alone
on the beach, throwing stones into the sea
and counting ships in the shipyard when
Mr Li was small.
25.Mr Li felt sad because he never sat down
and listened to his mothers feeling.
26.Ah Ma was admitted to the hospital,
deathly ill and taken care by Ying, her
grand -daughter.
27.When Ah Ma was hospitalized, she was
very tired that she closed her eyes all the
time even though she was not sleeping.
28.Ying fed her grandmother chicken rice
when she was at the hospital.
29.Ah Ma still recognized Mr Li even though
she was very ill.
30.Ah Ma answered all Mr Lis questions
about his childhood when she was in the
hospital.
31.Ah Ma was searching for the key to the
altar which was hidden in a special place.
32.Ah-Ma had died and Mr Li could not find
any joss sticks to light them
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33.The altar room was full of fresh flowers.

34. Mr Li put the photograph of his mother next
to his fathers on the altar.

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35. Mr Li is a 63-year-old man

36. Mr Li left the altar room without lighting the
electric candles and left the room in the
darkness.

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