|Question 16Verbal

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Anthropologist Lívia Barbosa, of the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil,______ food and sociability in contemporary Brazil specifically, how foods such as pão de queijo (a cheese-flavored bun) and paçoca (a peanut and sugar candy) function as central mechanisms in building social relationships, values, and identities.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
are studying
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studies
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study
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have studied
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