Walk into any supermarket or pharmacy and you will find several shelves of products designed to protect adults and children from the sun. Additionally, a host of public health campaigns have been created, including National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, that warn us about the sun's damaging UV rays and provide guidelines about protecting ourselves. While warnings about the sun's dangers are frequent, a recent survey found that fewer than half of all adults adequately protect themselves from the sun.
This paragraph best supports the statement that
A. children are better protected from the sun's dangerous rays than adults
B. sales of sun protection products are at an all-time high.
C. adults are not heeding the warnings about the dangers of sun exposure seriously enough.
D. more adults have skin cancer now than ever before.
E. there is not enough information disseminated about the dangers of sun exposure.
Answer: Option C
Solution(By Examveda Team)
The last sentence gives direct support for this response. Although children might be better protected from the sun than adults, the paragraph does not specifically cite statistics about children, so we can't know for sure, ruling out choice a. There is no evidence provided in the paragraph to support choices b and d. Choice e is incorrect since the last sentence tells us that warnings about the sun's dangers are frequent.A. Shakespeare's characters are more interesting than fictional characters today.
B. People even today are interested in Shakespeare's work because of the characters.
C. Academic scholars are putting together an anthology of Shakespeare's work.
D. New Yorkers have a renewed interested in the work of Shakespeare.
E. Shakespeare was a psychiatrist as well as a playwright.
A. consumer spending will be higher thirteen years from now than it is today.
B. more people buy houses in the month of February than in any other month.
C. during the winter months, the prices of single-family homes are the lowest.
D. there were about 4 million homes for sale during the month of February.
E. warm winter weather is likely to affect the rate of home sales.
A. work harder than people from other generations.
B. have a tendency to be self-directed workers.
C. have an interest in making history.
D. tend to work in jobs that require risk-taking behavior.
E. like to challenge their bosses work attitudes.
A. fitness walking is a better form of exercise than weight lifting.
B. a membership in a health club is a poor investment.
C. walking outdoors provides a better workout than walking indoors.
D. fitness walking is a convenient and valuable form of exercise.
E. poorly designed athletic shoes can cause major foot injuries.
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