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.