DISCUSSION: Here, the passage cites line 6. When the passage gives a line reference, you should always look around it for context.
The full description of sheep is in lines 6-8. There, we see sheep is represented by “a circled cross”. That, obviously, looks nothing like a sheep. So, the sign for sheep is an abstract symbol. “Sheep” could just as easily have been represented by, say, a triangle.
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- CORRECT. See the analysis above. The full text of lines 6-8 supports this answer. If a sheep could be a cross with a circle, then anything could have been a sheep.
- “Sheep” is a cross with a circle. “Metal” is a crescent with five lines. Neither symbol seems particularly like the thing is represents.
- Nonsense. “Sheep” is represented by a cross with a circle. What does that have to do with agriculture.
- The first paragraph doesn’t say who first figured out the meaning of “sheep” scientifically. In fact, it doesn’t even say whether Schmandt-Besserat did so.
- What? This is really far off from anything mentioned in the passage. The author didn’t mention politics.
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