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The hillside is covered in long, parallel ridges a few metres apart, running along the slope, and the soil between them is deeper and darker than on the ridges. An archaeologist would infer that the hillside ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. was once farmed in terraces or strips, now abandoned.Correct
  2. B. is the site of a natural landslide.
  3. C. was never used by people.
  4. D. was a quarry.

Answer: A. was once farmed in terraces or strips, now abandoned.

Parallel ridges and worked soil.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. is the site of a natural landslide.
Landslides do not leave regular parallel ridges.
C. was never used by people.
Regularity suggests human work.
D. was a quarry.
Quarries leave pits, not ridges.

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