Multiple choice

Sentence 10 in the passage is best described as

Direction for questions 13 to 18: The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten. Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask you to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

Passage – III
(1) I believe that religion is a very scary thing. (2) It scares me that parents can bring their children up in a family dominated so much by their belief in God that they know of nothing else.
(3) Children go through their life believing that if their faith is strong enough, nothing will harm them. (4) God will protect them overall, all will be fine... perfect. (5) How can people so blindly believe in something without proof.  (6) Doubt society, doubt conformity; it is the norm.
(7) Faith and the utter belief in something lacking in proof scares me. (8) It becomes such a self involved thing, 'God will love me if I just believe in him', it is a cycle that goes on till the believer simply lives in a bubble of blind faith. (9) What happens when someone pops that bubble? (10) When they enter the real world and realize that "Hey! it's not as wonderful as I thought". (11) How's their faith going to help them then?
(12) All faith will do is force them into either another bubble of complete denial or one of opposing their own parents and their norms.  (13) Obviously there has to be more to life than this. (14) How can we truly believe that we are the be-all and end-all of life? (15) Believing in that is as bad as blind faith.
(16) But do we truly all need to be pumped from other spiritual believers trying to force us into their bubble of blindness. (17) Please think more rationally about life. (18) Don't do something just because your parents do.
(19) This is what life is about, finding things out for yourself, trying to gain as much information on everything as we can. Don't believe blindly in God, think about your faith.

  1. expressing a personal opinion.

  2. emphasizing an important point.

  3. providing a contradiction in the essay.

  4. introducing a new idea.

  5. providing an additional example.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Sentence 10 emphasizes an important point as it states the reason why the writer is questioning faith, and that is the theme of the passage. Hence, (B) is the answer.