Explanation for Question 39 From the Reading Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question 39 says it can most reasonably be inferred that the archeological evidence referred 2 to in line 78. Does what? So let's look back at this line 78 3 and see if we can get some context for what they're referencing in this 4 question. So if we had the sentence that the referencing, 5 it says that's consistent with other archeological evidence that central European farmers heard 6 a dairy cows, whereas Mediterranean farmers, 7 herded sheep and goats and drank fermented milk, 8 which has much lower, low lactose levels. 9 So in this case, we're not really going to focus on the second part 10 of that sentence just yet. We're just going to focus on this first part. 11 Oops, that's a highlight or I need a pen. Okay. 12 So we're going to focus on this first part. 13 It says that's consistent with other archeological evidence. 14 So what we can infer from that is that whatever purpose 15 this reference to archeological evidence has, 16 is going to be in reference to supporting something, 17 right. 18 This consistency indicates the support of earlier ideas 19 expressed. So if we look back at the answer choices here, 20 we can automatically eliminate answer choice a saying that it introduces 21 an unresolved complication. That's not going to indicate support for an earlier expressed 22 idea. And you can also eliminate answer choices. 23 It's highlighting a genetic factor that likely influenced settlement patterns, 24 because that doesn't talk about support of any earlier ideas e...