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idea by emphasizing a corresponding need for arable land to feed growing numbers of people: construction of small dams, reservoirs, terraces, and field houses indicates that farmers were intensifying their efforts during the 1200s. Competition for good farmland may also have prompted people to bond together to assert rights over the best fields.

6. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the

highlighted sentence in the passage?Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

○Some scholars even claim that the intensification of farmers' various efforts during the 1200s led to further population growth and the consequent need for more arable land.

○Evidence of intensifying agriculture in the 1200s indicates a need to feed a larger population and so extends the argument that a growing population was the cause of the move to pueblos.

○During the 1200s, farmers met the demand for more arable land, but they also succeeded in cultivating existing land more intensively with the help of agricultural construction projects

○Some scholars feel strongly that the construction of small dams, reservoirs, terraces, and field houses in the thirteenth century is independent evidence for growth in the number of people.

>>>原文的结构是scholar强调需要耕地来保证增长人口的食物，construction indicates blabla。答案是B，A的effort lead to人口增长没有提到；C的转折完全不对，而且farmer满足耕地需要也不对；D的independent evidence不对