Nhận biết (M1)

Tikal, the famed Maya city located in the lowlands of northern Guatemala, was likely __________ of achievements attained in the lesser-known polities of the Mirador Basin. As MoralesAguilar et al. have shown, developments at those earlier Mirador sites (e.g., the ten astronomically aligned complexes at Nakbe) were a historical precondition for the sophistication exhibited by the architects of later cities.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

• A.

  a replica

• B.

  a beneficiary

• C.

  an archetype

• D.

  an antithesis