Question

Which statement best represents the controlling idea of the paragraph?

Do you watch TV commercials? According to the Television Research
Council, average teenagers will have spent 175,000 hours watching
over 350,000 commercials by the time they graduate from high school.
Now a new study has shown that watching commercials increases
behaviors linked to greed, selfishness, and irresponsibility. Due to
overexposure to advertisements, many teens may be making poor life
choices
O A. TV stations play too many commercials during teen programming
OB. Teens watch too much television and too many commercials,
C. The Television Research Council suggests limiting the amount of
TV a teen watches.
D. Commercials are having a negative effect on today's teens.

Answer 1

D. Commercials are having a negative effect on today's teens.

Step-by-step explanation:

The main focus of the paragraph is talking about TV commercials and its effects on teens. It gives a statistic on how many commercials teens have watched before graduating. Then, it goes into stating things about its effects "...a new study has shown that watching commercials increases behaviors linked to greed, selfishness, and irresponsibility." This directly correlates to option D. It is showing how commercials persuade teens to make more "poor life choices."

A is incorrect because the paragraph is not directly addressing TV stations. There isn't even the word "stations" mentioned anywhere in the paragraph.

B is incorrect because even though this is true, the paragraph doesn't talk about how much TV teens watch, it talks about commercials. Even then, that is not what the paragraph is aiming at.

C is incorrect because nowhere did it say that The Television Research Council suggests to limit the amount of TV they watch. Once again, this isn't about TV, it is about commercials.

This leaves option D as the correct answer.

I hope this helps!!

- Kay :)Explanation:

Answer 2

D. Commercials are having a negative effect on today's teens.

Step-by-step explanation:

The main focus of the paragraph is talking about TV commercials and its effects on teens. It gives a statistic on how many commercials teens have watched before graduating. Then, it goes into stating things about its effects "...a new study has shown that watching commercials increases behaviors linked to greed, selfishness, and irresponsibility." This directly correlates to option D. It is showing how commercials persuade teens to make more "poor life choices."

A is incorrect because the paragraph is not directly addressing TV stations. There isn't even the word "stations" mentioned anywhere in the paragraph.

B is incorrect because even though this is true, the paragraph doesn't talk about how much TV teens watch, it talks about commercials. Even then, that is not what the paragraph is aiming at.

C is incorrect because nowhere did it say that The Television Research Council suggests to limit the amount of TV they watch. Once again, this isn't about TV, it is about commercials.

This leaves option D as the correct answer.

I hope this helps!!

- Kay :)