Who Is My Neighbour? A man was going from Jerusalem to Tericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him, and went away leaving him half-dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he walked by on the other side. So too a rich man, when he came to the place and saw him, he walked by on the other side. But a man from Samaria, as he travelled, came where the man was; and when the Samaritan saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds. Then he put the man on his donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day, he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper.'Look after him, 'he said,'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'

Answer the question.

1. According to this story, can strangers be our neighbours? Explain.

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Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.