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SABRINA'S ANSWERS 5.1 Fiction

COMPREHENSION A 1. The Apsaalooka tribe. 2. She found a corpse. 3. The girl came across a bear. 4. She used her knife and the corpse's broken shinbone. 5. She climbed on a pine tree.

B 1. a) Must have been dead b) Panickingly searching for a thing c) Stabbing at the throat 2. The girl's shoulder is injured, her hand is pierced and her ribs are cracked. 3. The writer detailed about the bear's "long grizzled gold hairs" and his ability to kill. 4. The girl was still in shock: "slowly, she let herself down the pine trunk, a little drop at a time," and that she's still afraid: "her legs were trembling so violently she crumpled to the dirt."

C1. a) "Ivory claws flashed past her face" and "the bear jabbed a paw under her hip and rolled her onto the back." b) "She felt dirt pressed against her face," and "she could feel her skin prickling."

2. It is a contrast because in the paragraph, the bear is dead: "the bear lay in a heap nearby, motionless and massive as a mountain."

VOCAB 1. ivory - creamy-white bone-like substance forming the tusks of an elephant 2. growl - low threatening sound 3. foul - dirty and bad-smelling 4. saliva - liquid produced by the mouth to help swallow the food faster 5. muzzle - nose and mouth of an animal 6. twitch - a small, sudden movement of the muscles 7. corpse - dead body, especially of a human being 8. gulp - swallow food; drink quickly 9. bellow - shout in a deep loud voice 10. retching - trying to vomit but not bringing up anything 11. sputtering - making a series of spitting sounds 12. rasp - unpleasant, harsh voice

GRAMMAR A - Bear, Girl, Girl, Girl, Bear, Girl, Girl, Bear, Girl, Girl, Bear, Girl, Girl, Bear, Girl, Girl B - BEAR - The bear saw a girl nearing his food, so he charged the girl, thinking she was stealing the corpse. It reached out and slammed her shoulders, hoping to immobilize her. He smashed his paws down her ribs. Thinking she is dead, the bear rolled the girl onto her back and shoved at her with his muzzle, checking whether she was still alive or not. -GIRL - My legs buckled as the bear charged on me. Claws flashed past my face and I heard a loud roar near my ears. I can vividly smell the dirt and felt a searing shot of pain in my arm. My hand was pierced, but I didn't dare shout a word. Until the point when the pain was unbearable, then I grasped for my knife in panic. The pain caused me to fall onto the ground. I tried to protect my belly by curling up. I held my breath as the bear's saliva dripped onto my neck and trailed down under my chin.