Question

questions 3 through 7 refer to the following.(the passage below is a draft.)(1) except for the professional opportunities archaeology affords and the state-of-the-art technologies that archaeologists use, many people might assume that archaeology has little to do with the present. (2) after all, archaeology is the study of human history. (3) a recent finding at eleutherna, the site of an ancient greek city on crete, provides a striking example: unearthing the skeleton of a woman, archaeologists struggled to interpret the unusual signs of strain on the bones until they watched a local craftswoman at work.(4) the archaeologists interpretation not only challenges popular assumptions about archaeology, but it also forces archaeologists to reexamine their assumptions about womens work in ancient greece.(5) eleutherna researchers discovered the skeleton in 2009. (6) preliminary analysis determined that the approximately 50-year-old woman lived between 900 and 650 bce.(7) examining her remains, the archaeologists eyeballed something truly wacky: unlike the cartilage of other female specimens at the site, the cartilage on the upper right side of the skeletons body and on the right-hip and knee joints was almost completely worn away.(8) this anomaly signified that the woman must have engaged in a long-term strenuous activity involving the right side of her body. (9) seeking more exact information, the researchers drew on their assumptions about the kinds of work women performed in ancient greece. (10) deploying skeletal models, the archaeologists tried bread-baking, weaving, harvesting, etc.—but to no avail.(11) wondering if the present could unlock the past, the archaeologists spent several years observing people near eleutherna who performed tasks similar to those the ancient greeks would have performed. (12) success came in 2018 when a female ceramicist3 mark for reviewthe writer wants to add commentary after sentence 10 that further explains the significance of the evidence presented in relation to the paragraphs line of reasoning. which of the following sentences, if inserted after sentence 10, best accomplishes this goal?a in fact, the women of ancient athens were neither allowed to own property nor to enjoy the full rights of citizenship.b no activity typically associated with women would have taxed the body to the extent evidenced by the skeleton.c the type of skeletal models used by the archaeologists at eleutherna are able to mimic human body movements.d women in ancient greece are also closely associated with religious practices, especially ritual care of the dead.

Explanation:

The goal is to add a sentence after sentence 10 that connects to the paragraph's reasoning about the female skeleton's strain and failed initial assumptions about women's work in ancient Greece. Option B directly addresses why the skeletal models (for typical women's work) failed: those activities wouldn't cause the extreme skeletal damage seen, which explains the prior lack of success in matching the skeleton to expected women's labor. The other options are irrelevant: A discusses Athenian women's rights (not related to the skeletal evidence/work strain), C focuses on the models' physical mimicry (not the reasoning about the skeleton's unusual strain), and D covers religious practices (unconnected to the paragraph's core about physical labor and skeletal signs).

Answer:

B. No activity typically associated with women would have taxed the body to the extent evidenced by the skeleton.