3. QUESTION 3: In the following paragraph, select a line from the text that the author offers to support her idea that people are not always focused on doing "whatever [is] necessary to survive
in a crisis."
“ Self-preservation is supposedly an instinct. So one would think that in life-and-death situations,
we'd all be very focused on whatever was necessary to survive. But that's not always true. In July
2007, I was having a drink with a friend in Grand Central Station when an underground steam
pipe exploded just outside. From where we sat, we heard a dull "boom!" and then suddenly,
people were running, streaming out of the tunnels and out the doors.
My friend and I walked quickly and calmly outside, but to get any further, we had to push our
way through a crowd of people who were staring, transfixed, at the column of smoke rising from
the front of the station. Some people were crying, others were screaming, others were on their
cell phones... *
A. Self-preservation is supposedly an instinct.
D. So one would think that in life-and-death situations, we'd all be very focused on whatever was necessary to
survive.
B. In July 2007, I was having a drink with a friend in Grand Central Station when an underground steam pipe
exploded just outside.
C. We had to push our way through a crowd of people who were staring, transfixed, at the column of smoke rising from the front of the station