Read the paragraph from The Hot Zone and the
summary that follows it.
Which changes should be made to improve this
summary of the paragraph's central idea? Select two
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it
options.
can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of
decay, falling toward disorder and randomness. Except
O Remove the phrase "It is petrifying" because it
in the case of viruses. They can turn off and go dead.
expresses a personal feeling.
Then, if they come in contact with a living system, they
switch on and multiply. The only thing that "lived"
O Include the detail that there was a dead virus living
inside this monkey was the unknown agent, and it was
inside the monkey.
dead, for the time being. It was not multiplying
or
O Remove the detail that viruses can come alive even
doing anything, since the monkey's cells were dead.
f they are dead.
But if the agent touched living cells, Nancy's cells, it
would come alive and begin to amplify itself. In theory,
O Add the phrase and spread throughout the human
it could amplify itself around the world in the human
species* to the end of the statement to more fully
species.
express the central idea.
Summary of central idea: It is petrifying that even if
viruses are dead, they have the potential to "come
O Add a personal opinion about what may happen if
alive."
the virus does "come alive.*