Explanation for Question 32 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 32 says the main purpose of lines 12 through 18 is to post 2 questions that way. So let's look back at this piece in the passage and 3 get some context here, and then we can talk about the correct answer and 4 why the rest of the answer choices are incorrect. So if we just read 5 this little paragraph really quickly, 6 it says scientists studying the spread of farming into Europe have numerous questions was 7 agriculture brought in primarily by middle Eastern farmers who replaced the resident and hunter 8 gatherers, or did agriculture advance through this spread of technology and ideas rather than 9 people. And was there just one wave of farming into the continent or multiple 10 waves and routes? So we can see here that this has mentioned just after 11 they introduced that study, that kind of all the research discussed in the passage 12 centers around in that introductory paragraph. 13 And so you can see that these questions are going to be answered throughout 14 the rest of the passage. And again, 15 the rest of the passage centers around that study, 16 that's mentioned in the introductory paragraph, which they go on later to tell us 17 is conducted by a team led by anthropologist Marie Laken. 18 It says that right here at the top of the second, 19 um, column. 20 So all the research that is like 21 this passage is centered around is conducted by Marie Laken. 22 So let's look at the answer choices here and discuss those. 23 So the answer choices, 24 if we look at ans...