Question 22 Answer and Explanation _ACT December 2016 Form 74H English Section

Passage II

A Siletz Speaker

[1]

“Ghaa-yalh,” Bud Lane says to his young granddaughter. [A] He’s using a phrase from the language of his ancestors, words so old that they were spoken thousands of years before Europeans arrived in North America. (16) His goal is to teach her Coastal Athabaskan, a nearly extinct language spoken fluently by only a few members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, given that it is the language of their ancestors.

[2]

Alfred (Bud) Lane III didn’t grow up along the coast of Oregon, which is where the Siletz Reservation is located. He was born in 1957 in Guam, where his father was stationed in the military. As a young adult, Lane moved to the land of his ancestors to learn everything he could about Siletz culture. The Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde created Oregon’s first language-immersion program to successfully teach the tribes’ preschoolers to speak their native language, Chinuk Wawa. (19) He learned fragments of the Coastal Athabaskan language, as in small pieces of the language, but he longed to converse in it.[B]

[3]

Lane convinced Nellie Orton, a tribal elder who knew the language well but never spoke it in public, to be his teacher. (22) He produced language CDs and created an online Coastal Athabaskan “talking dictionary,” of words that had previously existed only in the few speakers’ heads. [C]

[4]

In 2003, the tribal council asked Lane whether he were to have started language classes in the community. Still, he soon resigned from his job at the local paper mill and began teaching at the Siletz Valley Charter School. [D] With financial help from a grant awarded to the tribe in 2008, with these funds Lane organized a small staff to develop a formal language curriculum, including instructional materials accessible not only to schoolchildren but to all tribal members.

[5]

For Lane, a unique knowledge is embedded in the traditions of his forebears, including medical knowledge. Language, he believes, is the life force of a culture, a source of stories, poetry, history, and art. ‘‘Language maintains our view ofyuhl—the world,” he says.

22. Which of the following true statements, if added here would provide the most logical link to the information about Lane’s work that follows in the next sentence?

F. More than half of the Pacific Northwest’s approximately thirty indigenous languages are already extinct, and without direct preservation effort, more will be lost.

G. For the next thirty years, Lane recorded elder‘ speech and studied the Coastal Athabaskan language, becoming one of the tribe’s most fluent speakers.

H. Working with other tribal members, Lane helped design a cedar-plank dance house along the Siletz River.

J. Lane also worked closely with two other tribal elders, Loren Bommelyn and Gladys Bolton.

Answer and Explanation

Your Answer is

Correct Answer is G

Explanation

The stem requires that the added sentence be able to "logically relate to the explanation of Lane's work in the article". The following says "Lane produces language CDs and creates online dictionaries".

The theme of item G is "In the next thirty years, Lane recorded the speeches of his predecessors and studied the Athabascan language, so he became the most fluent speaker" which meets the requirements of the topic.

Item F: Mainly explain that "nearly thirty languages ??will become extinct in the Northwest Pacific, and many more will become extinct without proper protection" (not related to lane's work).

Item H: Explain that "Working with other tribe members, Lane helped design a Matsuzaka dance classroom" (regardless of language).

Item J: Explain that "Lane works with the seniors of two other tribes" (regardless of language).