Texting while driving is a dangerous action that has cost too many lives. for instance, text messaging makes a crash twenty-three times more likely to happen. in addition, teens who text and drive spend ten percent of their driving time outside their lane. despite this, seventy-seven percent of people believe that they can safely text while driving. the truth is that 13% of drivers ages 18 to 20 who were involved in a car wreck admitted to using their mobile device at the time of the crash. moving forward, drivers must not be a part of the problem, but instead be a part of the solution.

why is the concluding statement in this paragraph effective?

it explains how text messaging makes a crash twenty-three times more likely to happen.

it shows the counterclaim that many people believe they can safely text and drive.

it suggests that teenagers are the only ones who should not text and drive.

it provides a call to action to stop texting and driving.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt