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which of the following best explains the
function of the first sentence of passage 12
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a. it demonstrates that people are generally
confused about the author's career.
b. it asks a question that the author will try
to answer in the passage.
a a a
passage 1
when i tell people what i do for a
living, wisecracking party guests will ask
me, "so, as an expert, what came first:
the chicken or the egg? " but in my line of
work, such a question is not only stupid
because it's unanswerable; it is stupid
because it does not matter.
i am an evolutionary biologist. my job
is to research and determine how evolution works. evolution is the
process by which different kinds of living things developed and
diversified from earlier forms during earth's history. the theory was
originally posited in ancient greece but later articulated more famously
by charles darwin in the nineteenth century. my particular field of study
only emerged in the 1930s and 1940s.
though my evolutionary biologist colleagues study different aspects
of evolution, my specific focus is on genetics. i don't really care about
what species emerged and when; i only care about how the
transformation occurred. and the transformations in which i am most
interested are gene transformations. genes are carriers of certain
c. it introduces the author's main topic by
providing a rival point of view.
d. it provides an anecdote the author uses
to introduce his or her main topic.
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