Read this excerpt from a passage.
I convinced my parents to get me a music device with headphones when I was eleven. When I was fifteen, I started going to
concerts at indoor arenas and large amphitheaters. At the big concerts, you could always find me next to the speakers. A year
later I was also going to all-ages shows at clubs and you know where I'd park myself. After a concert or a club gig, I'd
occasionally notice ringing in my ears afterward. But by the next day it would be gone. Yet that post-event ringing gradually
got louder and louder, and it took longer and longer to disappear. Then one day last year I realized that the ringing was 24/7,
except when I was asleep. I also had to face the fact that, more and more often, I was asking, "What did you say?" in
conversations.
My parents took me to a hearing specialist. The diagnosis was pretty straightforward: In both ears, I'd lost some hearing at
one range and a lot of hearing at another. The constant ringing was connected to the hearing loss. Of course I asked the doctor,
"So what can you do about it?" Her response "The hearing loss is irreversible" wasn't the answer I was expecting.
What was the cause of the author's irreversible hearing loss?
Repeated listening to loud music played very closely to her ears.
Going to all-ages shows at clubs was the main cause of her hearing loss.
The constant ringing in her ears caused damage to her hearing.
O A genetic problem caused her to slowly lose her hearing over a long period of time.