Tehuelche & Linguist

Use “Tehuelche” to answer questions 1-6. Then fill in the answers on THIS answer document.

1. (2.2A) In paragraph 36, the word inured means —

• A. frightened

• B. accustomed

• C. sensitive

• D. reminded

2. (2.4G) Why does Alejandro allow the old woman to stay in the clinic?

• F. He wants to be present when the old woman’s granddaughter arrives.

• G. He doesn’t want to release her until the results of her blood test arrive.

• H. He assumes that the nursing home director has political connections.

• J. He doesn’t trust the nursing home staff to know how to care for her

3. (2.4F) Which line suggests that Alejandro is sensitive to the feelings of others?

• A. And she looks a lot worse than she did yesterday, he didn’t say.

• B. Why an old lady would come to ski or practice extreme sports was beyond him.

• C. Dr. Alejandro Benetti shook his head in frustration.

• D. “Well, I know what kills them, and how to keep that from happening.”

4. (2.8F) Read paragraph 33:

"No recognition shone in the grandmother’s eyes, and the smile was the same as the one she’d given the doctor. There was little time left to her, and nothing outwardly wrong that he could detect. Perhaps the blood work would show something, but it would be two days before that came back from Bariloche."

The tone of this paragraph can best be described as —

• F. outraged

• G. admiring

• H. resigned

• J. hopeful

5. (2.4F) In paragraph 26, the description of Jimena’s laugh suggests that she is —

• A. horrified that a doctor could ask such a ridiculous question

• B. pretending to enjoy the doctor’s attempt to be witty

• C. scornfully mocking the doctor for his stupidity

• D. genuinely amused by a question she finds a bit naive

6. (2.8D) In paragraph 32, the author uses a metaphor to convey —

• F. Jimena’s emotions

• G. the grandmother’s confusion

• H. Alejandro’s professionalism

• J. the feeling in the room

Use “Linguist on Mission to Save Inuit ‘Fossil Language’ Disappearing with the Ice” to answer questions 7-11.

7. (2.8A) Read paragraph 7: "The Inughuits thought they were the world’s only inhabitants until an expedition led by the Scottish explorer John Ross came across them in 1818." The author’s purpose for including this information in the selection is most likely to —

• A. describe the history of Europeans traveling to Greenland in order to study the Inughuits

• B. suggest that Ross’s expedition indirectly caused the destruction of Inughuit culture

• C. support the claim that the Inughuits have a strong cultural heritage

• D. emphasize how geographically and culturally isolated the Inughuits once were

8.(2.4F) Which sentence supports the idea that the life of the Inughuits now is not very different from how it has always been?

• F. Leonard, an anthropological linguist, is to spend a year living with the Inughuit people of northwest Greenland. . . .

• G. Many of the men spend weeks away from home hunting seals, narwhal, walruses, whales and other mammals.

• H. “One thing I have been told is that they are tired of journalists popping in and reporting how awful it is. . . .”

• J. “Then they’ll have to move south and in all probability move in to modern flats.”

9. (2.4G) What does Leonard predict will cause the Inughuits to move south?

• A. The end of their distinctive cultural heritage

• B. The desire to move into modern housing

• C. The loss of their traditional language

• D. The effects of climate change on their environment

10. (2.8A)Which of these best describes the author’s purpose for writing this article?

• F. To criticize the failure of linguists to document a language before it was nearly extinct

• G. To analyze the linguistic elements of one of the oldest and most pure Inuit dialects

• H. To inform the public of a researcher’s effort to document a disappearing language

• J. To argue that the Inuktun dialect will inevitably be lost in the next 10 to 15 years