Crossing the Bering Strait

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Evidence suggests that the people who crossed the Bering Strait from Asia into North America over a land bridge were hunter-gatherers, nomads living in an egalitarian society where they obtained their sustenance almost entirely from wild plants and animals.

Review: Crossing the Bering Strait


Explanation

Creating a filter: when reading the prompt, we can pause at the word "where." A society is not a place, so "where" is incorrect. Choice (A) is out.

Applying the filter: We scan for the same error below and don't find it, so we must go back to (B) and look for new errors.

Finding objective defects: choice (B) might be correct. (C) uses "which means" incorrectly. Hunter-gatherers are included in the sentence as the people, not a term; the verb needs to be plural; if "hunter-gatherers" is to be included as a term to be defined, it needs to be in quotation marks and the preceding part of the sentence would have to be different. (C) and (D) are out. Choice (E) introduces a bogus pronoun "it," moves on to a new independent clause without a comma before "and," and uses the present tense where the past tense is required. The correct answer is (B).


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