"My speech is clear because I could hear till I was eleven,"
she says. But that doesn't explain........
(a) Who speaks these words? Why was her
speech expected to be unclear?
(b) What is 'not explained in the context of the
extract?
(5)
Answers
Explanation:
a Evelyn said these words. Her speech was expected to be unclear as she had lost the ability of hearing i.e. she had became a deaf.
b How Evelyn has learned other languages after she became deaf . This has not been explained in the context
Answer:
a) Evelyn speaks the words explaining how her speech is clear despite being deaf.
b) It is not addressed how she became deaf.
Explanation:
a) Evelyn said these words. She claimed that she had a proper functioning ear till the age of eleven hence could learn words and communicate properly and knew basic French and Japanese. I t was expected that her speech would be unclear as she had lost the ability of hearing i.e. she had became a deaf, because it was assumed she was deaf by birth hence there was no way she could learn words and communicate properly.
b) It is not explained how Evelyn lost her ability to hear and led to the condition she is in right now. It is not well explained what events led to her current state of being.
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