Q4 to Q6:
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
many Western Pueblo settlements
in what is now the southwestern United
Line States may have possessed distinctly
(5) hierarchical organizational structures.
These communities’ agricultural
systems—which were “intensive” in
the use of labor rather than “extensive”
in area—may have given rise to polit-
(10) ical leadership that managed both
labor and food resources. That formal
management of food resources
was needed is suggested by the
large size of storage spaces located
(15) around some communal Great Kivas
(underground ceremonial chambers).
Though no direct evidence exists that
such spaces were used to store food,
Western Pueblo communities lacking
(20) sufficient arable land to support their
populations could have preserved
the necessary extra food, including
imported foodstuffs, in such apparently
communal spaces.
(25) Moreover, evidence of specialization
in producing raw materials and
in manufacturing ceramics and textiles
indicates differentiation of labor within
and between communities. The orga-
(30) nizational and managerial demands
of such specialization strengthen
the possibility that a decision-making
elite existed, an elite whose control
over labor, the use of community sur-
(35) pluses, and the acquisition of imported
goods would have led to a concentration
of economic resources in their
own hands. Evidence for differential
distribution of wealth is found in buri-
(40) als of the period: some include large
quantities of pottery, jewelry, and other
artifacts, whereas others from the
same sites lack any such materials.
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Q4:
Which of the following, if true, would most clearly undermine the author’s statement in
the last sentence of the passage (lines 38-43) regarding the distribution of wealth in
Western Pueblo settlements?
A. Only community members of exceptional wealth are likely to have been buried
with their personal possessions.
B. Members of communities with extensive agricultural systems are usually buried
without personal possessions.
C. Most artifacts found in burial sites were manufactured locally rather than
imported from other communities.
D. Burial artifacts are often ritual objects associated with religious practices rather
than being the deceased’s personal possessions.
E. The quality of burial artifacts varies depending on the site with which they are
associated.
这题感觉怪怪的，模考时由于时间紧张，没认真看题，在A、B 之间艰难抉择了半天，下来才发现D才是最完美的答案。
我认为本题A、B是一个性质的选项，如果一个入选另一个也应该正确，因为它们的方法都是提出在原文中无根据的具体某类人的例子来weaken结论，而D才是真正全面地阐述，不知这种理解对否，望不吝赐教。。。 | 
or B (pdf文件里面的答案是D）