1. Which of the following best summarizes the
author's purpose for including the statistic in
the first sentence of the article?
A To entertain the reader with a shocking fact
B. To introduce the idea of cell phone addiction
C. To persuade the reader to stop using technology
such as cell phones
To introduce an idea that will later be disproven
with evidence
D.

To introduce the idea of cell phone addiction

Option B.

Explanation:

The article talks about how much people are addicted to the use of cell phones these days. The cell phones are not used for emergency purposes only now but also for the entertainment of the people.

A huge amount of the total day of a human being is spent on the use of the cell phones by the people of all the ages, be it a small child, an adolescent or even an adult. For that matter people of even old age spend a lot of time on the cell phones.

a biography is a genre that mainly accounts somebody's life and that is written by somebody else. this genre supports sonia nazario's desire to share enrique's life because she can fully inform readers of his entire emotional journey.

in a biography, an author can share the readers almost everything about a person's life, or just one key event or personal aspect the author is interested in telling, like in this specific case in which sonia nazario is centered in enrique's emotional journey.

what excerpt?

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