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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. Which of the following is a situation in which sign language would be
used?
a. among a community of deaf people

b. while scuba diving
c. in cloistered religious communities
d. all of the above

2. Which of the following is mentioned last in the passage?
a. Sign language is classified as a true language.
b. Some people with speech impairments use sign language.

c. British and American sign languages are mutually unintelligible.
d. Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world.

3. What might cause a non-deaf person to have to use sign language?

a. swimming in a pool with friends
b. working in an extremely noisy factory
c. vacationing in a foreign country
d. wanting to talk to one’s pet

4. How are sign languages compared to oral languages in the passage?
a. Both sign languages and oral languages are true languages.
b. Oral languages allow for the expression of more complex thought than sign
languages.

c. Sign languages are universal, whereas oral languages are not.
d. Sign languages can communicate faster than oral languages.

5. Predict which group of people would have the hardest time

understanding each other.
a. a person who speaks German and a person who speaks Japanese
b. a person who speaks American English and a person who speaks British

English
c. two people who speak different sign languages
d. two scuba divers communicating with sign language

6. As it is used in this passage the word hearing means

a. a legal trial
b. within earshot
c. an audience
d. the sense that perceives sound

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