Bunuel wrote:
In a crowded, acquisitive world, the disappearance of lifestyles such as those once followed by southern Africa's Bushman and Australia's aborigines, requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seem inevitably doomed.
(A)requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seem inevitably doomed
(B)requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seems to be inevitably doomed
(C)which require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seem to be inevitably doomed
(D)life-styles that require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seem inevitable
(E)life-styles requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seems inevitable
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(A)requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seem inevitably doomed
(B)requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seems to be inevitably doomed
(C)which require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seem to be inevitably doomed
(D)life-styles that require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seem inevitable
(E)life-styles requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seems inevitable
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Spoiler: ::
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/09/science/as-ancient-ways-slide-into-oblivion-hunter-tribes-face-painful-choices.html
In a crowded, acquisitive world, the demise of life styles such as those once followed by southern Africa's Bushmen and Australia's aborigines, requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, is perhaps inevitable. The real question today, anthropologists and tribal leaders say, is whether the remnants of hunting and gathering peoples can find dignified new modes of living amid societies that have alternately treated them with hostility, indifference or condescension.
In a crowded, acquisitive world, the demise of life styles such as those once followed by southern Africa's Bushmen and Australia's aborigines, requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, is perhaps inevitable. The real question today, anthropologists and tribal leaders say, is whether the remnants of hunting and gathering peoples can find dignified new modes of living amid societies that have alternately treated them with hostility, indifference or condescension.
Imo E
A very good question to practice.
The modifier "the disappearance of lifestyles such as those once followed by southern Africa's Bushman and Australia's aborigines" comes in between two commas, so this modifier can be dropped still making sense of the sentence.
So the sentence without the modifier
In a crowded, acquisitive world,requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seem inevitably doomed.
Now we can see the problems with the original sentence. This sentence does not have a noun so basically this sentence is not an independent sentence.
You can ask the question who is requiring? for more clarity. The answer will point to noun.
There is also one more problem with this sentence. The verb used in plural but the verb has to be singular as the subject of the sentence has to be lifestyle, so "seems" is the correct verb.
A out as per above analysis.
B subject missing
C "which" is not correct here. It has to refer to the nearest noun i.e southern Africa's Bushman and Australia's aborigines. It is not correct here. People did not directly required large land rather their lifestyle did.
D plural verb "seem" is wrong here.
E is correct