Passage 1: henry moore (1898 – 1986 )

Answer: B.

35. Answer: C

Key words: surprised, parts, story, provide, unimportant

In paragraph 7, what was a “really big surprise” for Tehrani was that he found cautionary elements to be “just as flexible as seemingly trivial details” in “hunter-gatherer folk tales”.

This means that the elements which seem to provide cautionary, survival-relevant information may also be trivial, or unimportant, because they are not always fixed in the story.  Although they may warn of “possible dangers” that may be faced in the environment, these parts of a story have surprisingly changed over time.  Thus, the answer should be synonymous to ‘caution’ or ‘survival’. The most appropriate would be C – ‘warning’.

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  story = tale
  

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  unimportant = trivial
  

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