Explanation for Question 34 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 34 asks which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the 2 previous question. So we determined in an earlier video that the correct answer to 3 question 33 was going to be answered choice. 4 See the DNA evidence discussed in the passage most strongly suggests that 5 modern Europeans descended at least in part from people who originated further east. 6 So let's look at the lines of evidence given to us as answer choices 7 in question 34 and see which one best supports this idea. 8 So we can look generally for elements of just like 9 descent and also like origin 10 in the east. So we'll start with answer choice a lines 21 11 through 25, they say numerous such studies, 12 especially Y chromosomes, which are transmitted via the paternal line. 13 So that's the element we have of descent right there talking about the like 14 passing on of like traits. So that goes along with the scent. 15 And then it goes on to say, suggest that actual farmers, 16 not just their ideas, spread a westward over the millennia, 17 eventually reaching the British Isles. So this is going to provide us the 18 idea of the origin in the east. And it's a little bit less direct, 19 but due to some just like basic inferencing, 20 if they're spreading westward, they're going to start east. 21 So they have to start east comparatively if they're going to spread westward. 22 And so this piece that they spread westward over the millennia, 23 it gives us the indirect observation that these peopl...