PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 16
It is generally accepted that woodland clearings were(434 more words not shown)
According to the resource-procurement model(13 more words not shown)
- AThey traveled on(2 more words not shown)
- BThey hunted animals(4 more words not shown)
- CThey grazed domesticated(3 more words not shown)
- DThey used clearings(3 more words not shown)
- EThey planted crops(2 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The question names the resource-procurement model, so return to the opening explanation rather than the author's alternative. Trees could be removed to attract grazing animals, or naturally open areas could provide opportunities for hunting. The common feature is getting food from animals found in the clearings.
What we’re looking for
Grazing does not mean domesticated. Wild animals graze, too. We shouldn't turn a hunting explanation into a livestock-raising explanation just because both involve animals.
Working the answers
- A
Established pathways belong to the author's alternative account. They are not the food-procurement practice attributed to people under the model named in the question.
- BCorrect
The opening explicitly describes attracting grazing animals and “opportunistic hunting.” Hunting those animals is the practice supported by the resource-procurement model.
- C
Domesticated adds a claim we aren't given. Attracting animals to an open area doesn't establish that people owned, raised, or controlled them. The model describes hunting, not keeping a herd.
- D
Resting at intersections helps explain clearings as a social by-product in the last paragraph. That is the competing explanation, not the model we're being asked about.
- E
Food procurement is broad enough to include growing crops in ordinary usage, but this account specifies animals and hunting. It does not say these people planted crops in the clearings.
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