Multiple Choice Question
According to the passage, "Fight or Flight- The Evolution of Stress," which sentence BEST shows the way a person's automatic body functions take over in the event of an emergency?
A
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"At the sight of the tiger, your hypothalamus sends a message to your adrenal glands and within seconds, you can run faster, hit harder, see better, hear more acutely, think faster, and jump higher than you could only seconds earlier."
B.
"Consequently, you narrowly escape death by leaping higher and running faster than you ever could before."
C.
" Despite the huge amount of technological change in the ensuing 25,000 years, you are walking around with essentially the same set of internal body parts as that of the caveman."
D.
"You can almost feel your blood pressure soar as you take the long walk down the hall to your boss's office. "
A. "At the sight of the tiger, your hypothalamus sends a message to your adrenal glands and within seconds, you can run faster, hit harder, see better, hear more acutely, think faster, and jump higher than you could only seconds earlier."
The sentence that BEST shows the way a person's automatic body functions take over in the event of an emergency is sentence A: "At the sight of the tiger, your hypothalamus sends a message to your adrenal glands and within seconds, you can run faster, hit harder, see better, hear more acutely, think faster, and jump higher than you could only seconds earlier."
The correct answer is A.
To arrive at this answer, we need to understand the passage and identify the sentence that best represents a person's automatic body functions taking over in an emergency.
In the passage, it is mentioned that in an emergency, the hypothalamus sends a message to the adrenal glands, which results in various physical effects such as running faster, hitting harder, seeing better, hearing more acutely, thinking faster, and jumping higher.
Option A reflects this by stating, "At the sight of the tiger, your hypothalamus sends a message to your adrenal glands and within seconds, you can run faster, hit harder, see better, hear more acutely, think faster, and jump higher than you could only seconds earlier."
Options B, C, and D do not specifically address the automatic body functions taking over in an emergency, making them incorrect choices for this question.