English Fill-in-the-Blank Grammar Question
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6. The uniformity in the architectural styles in the Levant during the early Bronze Age suggests that a broad cultural hegemony ---- there; however, this interpretation ---- artefact distribution patterns rather than contemporary written evidence of centralised political control.
A) must have been established / is relying on
B) should have been established / relied on
C) might have been established / relies on
D) could have been established / will rely on
E) may have been established / had relied on
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Sentence Analysis
The sentence describes architectural styles in the early Bronze Age, which is a period in the distant past. The first blank refers to a cultural hegemony that perhaps existed then.
Context: Early Bronze Age (Historical Past)
Because we are making an inference about a past state, we need a past modal structure like might have been, could have been, or may have been. This suggests the hegemony was potentially established at that time.
Now let's look at the second part of the sentence after the semicolon. It says, this interpretation blank artefact distribution patterns.
Second Part of the Sentence
This part describes a characteristic of the current scientific interpretation or theory. In academic writing, descriptions of existing interpretations or general facts are typically expressed in the Simple Present tense.
Interpretation = Current Scholarly View -> Simple Present
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