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1-12；答案见后短阅读 1. 长江水稻，原文 southern-origin theorySince the 1970s, archaeological sites in Chinas Yangtze River region have yielded evidence of sophisticated rice-farming societies that predate signs of rice cultivation elsewhere in East Asia by a thousand years. Before this evidence was discovered, it had generally been assumed that rice farming began farther to the south. This scenario was based both on the geographic range of wild or free-living rice, which was not thought to extend as far north as the Yangtze, and on archaeological records of very early domestic rice from Southeast Asia and India (now known to be not so old as southern-origin theory  Which of the following, if true, would most clearly undermine the conclusion that the author makes based on the 1984 survey? Areas south of the Yangtze basin currently have less wild-rice habitat than they once did. Surveys since 1984 have shown wild rice populations along the upper Yangtze as well as along the middle and lower Yangtze. The populations of wild rice along the Yangtze represent strains of wild rice that migrated to the north relatively recently. Early rice-farming societies along the Yangtze were not as reported). Proponents of the point out highly developed as archaeologists once thought. that early rice-farming societies along the Yangtze were already highly developed and that evidence for the first stage of rice cultivation is missing. They argue that the first hunter-gatherers to develop rice agriculture must have done so in this southern In East Asia, the historical geographic range of wild rice was more extensive than the present-day geographic range is. zone, within the apparent present-day geographic range of wild 2. Based on the passage, skeptics of the idea that rice cultivation rice. Yet while most stands of wild rice reported in a 1984 survey were concentrated to the south of the Yangtze drainage, two northern outlier populations were also discovered in provinces along the middle and lo