Question

Archeological excavation of Market Street
Chinatown, a nineteenth-century Chinese
American community in San Jose, California,
provided the first evidence that Asian food
products were imported to the United States in the
1800s: bones from a freshwater fish species native
to Southeast Asia. Jinshanzhuang-Hong Kong-
based import/export firms-likely coordinated the
fish's transport from Chinese-operated fisheries in
Vietnam and Malaysia to North American markets.
This route reveals the (often overlooked)
multinational dimensions of the trade networks
linking Chinese diaspora communities.
Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
Choose 1 answer:
A. It provides information that helps support
a claim about a discovery's significance
that is presented in the following
sentence.
B. It explains why efforts to determine the
country of origin of the items mentioned
in the previous sentence remain
inconclusive.
C. It outlines a hypothesis that additional
evidence discussed in the following
sentence casts some doubt on.
D. It traces the steps that were taken to
locate and recover the objects that are
described in the previous sentence.

Answer 1

Answer:

The best choice that describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole is:

A. It provides information that helps support a claim about a discovery's significance that is presented in the following sentence.

The underlined sentence provides information about the archaeological excavation of Market Street Chinatown and the discovery of bones from a freshwater fish species native to Southeast Asia. This information supports the claim about the significance of the discovery, which is presented in the following sentence. The sentence highlights the evidence of Asian food products being imported to the United States in the 1800s, revealing the multinational dimensions of the trade networks linking Chinese diaspora communities.

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