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- 1. Multiple ChoiceTehuelche: In paragraph 36, the word inured means —frightenedaccustomedsensitivereminded
- 2. Multiple ChoiceTehuelche: Why does Alejandro allow the old woman to stay in the clinic?He wants to be present when the old woman’s granddaughter arrives.He doesn’t want to release her until the results of her blood test arrive.He assumes that the nursing home director has political connections.He doesn’t trust the nursing home staff to know how to care for her.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceTehuelche: Which line suggests that Alejandro is sensitive to the feelings of others?And she looks a lot worse than she did yesterday, he didn’t say.Why an old lady would come to ski or practice extreme sports was beyond him.Dr. Alejandro Benetti shook his head in frustration.“Well, I know what kills them, and how to keep that from happening.”
- 4. Multiple ChoiceTehuelche: What is the tone of the following paragraph?
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 bloodwork would show something, but it would be two days before that came back from Bariloche.outragedadmiringresignedhopeful - 5. Multiple ChoiceTehuelche: In paragraph 26, the description of Jimena’s laugh suggests that she is —horrified that a doctor could ask such a ridiculous questionpretending to enjoy the doctor’s attempt to be wittyscornfully mocking the doctor for his stupiditygenuinely amused by a question she finds a bit naive
- 6. Multiple ChoiceTehuelche: In paragraph 32, the author uses a metaphor to convey —Jimena’s emotionsthe grandmother’s confusionAlejandro’s professionalismthe feeling in the room
- 7. Multiple ChoiceLinguist: 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 —describe the history of Europeans traveling to Greenland in order to study the Inughuitsdescribe the history of Europeans traveling to Greenland in order to study the Inughuitssupport the claim that the Inughuits have a strong cultural heritageemphasize how geographically and culturally isolated the Inughuits once were - 8. Multiple ChoiceLinguist: Which sentence supports the idea that the life of the Inughuits now is not very different from how it has always been?Leonard, an anthropological linguist, is to spend a year living with the Inughuit people of northwest Greenland. . . .Many of the men spend weeks away from home hunting seals, narwhal, walruses, whales and other mammals.“One thing I have been told is that they are tired of journalists popping in and reporting how awful it is. . . .”“Then they’ll have to move south and in all probability move in to modern flats.”
- 9. Multiple ChoiceLinguist: What does Leonard predict will cause the Inughuits to move south?The end of their distinctive cultural heritageThe desire to move into modern housingThe loss of their traditional languageThe effects of climate change on their environment
- 10. Multiple ChoiceLinguist: Which of these best describes the author’s purpose for writing this article?To criticize the failure of linguists to document a language before it was nearly extinctTo analyze the linguistic elements of one of the oldest and most pure Inuit dialectsTo inform the public of a researcher’s effort to document a disappearing languageTo argue that the Inuktun dialect will inevitably be lost in the next 10 to 15 years
- 11. Multiple ChoiceLinguist: Which of the following statements best characterizes the objective of the boxed information titled “Did You Know?”To provide multiple theories for why languages disappearTo highlight the effects of climate change described in the articleTo provide facts about languages that are disappearingTo suggest that it is possible to prevent languages from disappearing
- 12. Multiple ChoiceBoth: Like the Tehuelche in “Tehuelche,” the Inughuit in “Linguist on Mission to Save Inuit ‘Fossil Language’ Disappearing with the Ice” are native people —in South America, with a small, aging populationwhose traditional land has become a popular tourist spotfacing the end of their linguistic and cultural heritagewhose way of life is threatened by climate change
- 13. Multiple ChoiceBoth: Unlike Stephen Leonard in “Linguist on Mission to Save Inuit ‘Fossil Language’ Disappearing with the Ice,” Alejandro in “Tehuelche” is at first concerned with a little-known language only because he —doesn’t want an ancient culture to be lostis trying to gain a deeper understanding of a cultureis committed to doing his job properlyhas trouble communicating with a patient
- 14. Multiple ChoiceBoth: Unlike Alejandro in “Tehuelche,” Stephen Leonard in “Linguist on Mission to Save Inuit ‘Fossil Language’ Disappearing with the Ice” travels to a remote region primarily to —conduct original researchearn moneypursue a professional opportunitysave lives
- 15. Multiple ChoiceBoth: In these selections, the Tehuelche people and the Inughuits are portrayed as —jadedisolateddangerousdepressed
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