Question

Archaeologists working in the Andes Mountains recently excavated a buried 4,000-year-old temple containing structures that align with a stone carving on a distant hill to indicate the direction of the rising sun at the summer solstice. Alignments in the temple were also found to point toward the position, at the summer solstice, of a constellation known in Andean culture as the Fox. Since the local mythology represents the fox as teaching people how to cultivate and irrigate plants, the ancient Andeans may have built the temple as a religious representation of the fox. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument is based?
(A) The constellation known as the Fox has the same position at the summer solstice as it did 4,000 years ago.
(B) In the region around the temple, the summer solstice marks the time for planting.
(C) The temple was protected from looters by dirt and debris built up over thousands of years.
(D) Other structural alignments at the temple point to further constellations with agricultural significance.
(E) The site containing the temple was occupied for a significant amount of time before abandonment.

Answer 1

Answer:

(D) Other structural alignments at the temple point to further constellations with agricultural significance.

Explanation:

In the archaeological discovery discovered in the Andes Mountains during excavation, there were series of structural discovery made. Part of it being the one which align with a stone carving found on a distinct hill indicating the direction of sun at the summer solistics.

Other structural alignments at the temple pointing to further constellations with agricultural significance would strengthen the argument of the Andean's temple as a religious representation of the fox.

Answer 2

Answer:

(A) The constellation known as the Fox has the same position at the summer solstice as it did 4,000 years ago.

Explanation:

Option A is correct because the passage mention that there is a relation between the summer solstice and the constellation recognized in the Andean culture as the Fox. Hence this option is the right one because from the sentence, it states that the constellation was positioned when the temple was constructed.

Option B is wrong because the passage makes no mention of the timing of the plantation.

Option C is totally out of scope in relation to the passage.

Option D is also wrong because it is rather a new information and was not discussed in the passage.

Option E is totally out of scope in relation to the passage.