Question

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.

Leif Erikson is a Viking ________ believed to have sailed from the Green Lands to Vinland. Vinland is now thought to be the

northern tip of Canada's Newfoundland island where ________ found evidence of Erikson's ________ in 1960s.

• A. sailor; excavators; packed
• B. astronomer; sculptors; colony
• C. calligrapher; historians; community
• D. explorer; archaeologists; settlement

Answer 1

Answer:

D. explorer; archaeologists; settlement

• This requires contextual vocabulary. A Viking is an explorer. People who find physical evidence from the 1960s are archaeologists, and they find a settlement (a place where people lived).