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Consider the sentence that illustrates the same use of the...
- Direction: Read Text I and answer questions 33 to 37.
TEXT I
Snake, with My Name
After Latt Loon Wai Oo’s “The One Left Behind in the Womb”
By Nay Thit
Before I was born, my mother says, there was another boy. My
brother. One day, half-asleep during lunch, he turned into a
snake, just like that. Shed his human skin. They said
something in him snapped wild, and he slithered away. Never
5 came back. That’s why I’m told to sit up straight when I eat,
chew properly, and don’t play with my food. I never believed
any of it. But one day, coming home from preschool, my father
pulled a small photo from the old family album. Pointing: a tiny
snake, grainy and dark in the black-and-white frame. That’s
10 him, he said. Your brother. He would’ve been your age when
it happened. That’s why we had you. Started over. So lucky
you’re here, eating carefully, staying human. Mother looked
sad. She said he had my name. That it was passed down from
him. In the photo, the snake isn’t clear—just a smudge of
15 shadow, barely a shape. Small enough to believe it once was
a boy. A five-year-old like me, maybe. Sitting outside our
house. Among plastic toys, little cars, and a broken tricycle.
The picture is still, but I could feel him moving. Pulling away
from his place in the frame, inching toward somewhere else.
20 That must be how he left our lives. Quiet and slow, but already
on his way.
Adapted from: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/
1731701/snake-with-my-name Accessed on November, 17th, 2025
Consider the sentence that illustrates the same use of the -ing as in the sentence “inching toward somewhere else.” (line 19)
A
Just there, a small snake slithering away.
B
His pulling away from the house saddened the parents.
C
Chewing properly was one of the things that made him human.
D
I don’t know why sitting up straight is so important for my parents.