Study the Body of Each of the Following Paragraphs

question 33

Multiple Choice

Study the body of each of the following paragraphs. Then select the letter of the topic sentence that is most accurate.
-_______________________________________________________________________. When a fifteen-foot tiger shark bit off most of her left arm just below the shoulder, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton did not cry during the attack. She was calm while her friend's father tied a tourniquet around her arm. After a harrowing experience like that, most people wouldn't want to go back into the ocean ever again. Bethany, however, was back on her surfboard just one month later. She also began entering competitions again, refusing special treatment. She said she now prays, sings, or calls out to nearby friends to keep her courage up because fear is something you just have to get over.

• A) Sharks are the biggest danger faced by surfers.
• B) Bethany Hamilton is a very brave young woman.
• C) Bethany Hamilton is a skilled surfer.

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Definitions:

Olivine

A green iron-magnesium silicate mineral that composes much of the upper mantle and also occurs in mafic and ultramafic igneous rocks.

Plagioclase

A very common rock-forming feldspar mineral that contains sodium, calcium, or both elements.

Crystallization

The process by which a solid forms, where the atoms or molecules are highly structured in a pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions.

Felsic Minerals

Light-colored minerals that are rich in silica and aluminum, commonly found in continental crust rocks like granite.