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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?
- A. was once farmed in terraces or strips, now abandoned.Correct
- B. is the site of a natural landslide.
- C. was never used by people.
- 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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