Question

Read the passage.

Benjamin Franklin was a man of vision. He was an inventor who created bifocals, a new kind of eyeglasses that people still wear to see better. Benjamin Franklin was also concerned about public welfare. He established the United States Postal Service and the first city hospital in America. In Philadelphia, he organized the police department, the fire department, the public library, and a university. He also helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Today, millions of people benefit from the ideas that Benjamin Franklin had more than two hundred years ago.

What is the role of the underlined sentence in this paragraph?


It is a statistic that serves as a supporting detail.
It is a summarizing sentence.
It is the topic sentence.
It is an example that serves as a supporting detail.

Answer 1

b because today we still have and use universities and the police and fire department. also, public libraries are vastly used

Answer 2

It is a summarizing sentence.

Step-by-step explanation:

Taking into account the passage and the examples provided to relate it, we can affirm that the correct option is the B, since the sentence is a summary of the biography of Mr. Benjamin Franklin, in addition to this it also summarizes his main achievements as well as his main concerns, and how all this influences the lives of Americans today.