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Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. 
The psychoactive herb salvia has garnered a great deal of attention for its use among adolescents. Thousands of online videos have sprung up of teenagers filming their hallucinogenic experiences. Most of this footage is uninspired: it shows the subjects losing focus for approximately seven to ten minutes, followed by enthusiastic claims regarding the transformative experience they underwent. These videos serve to compound parents’ fear of neurological damage with the more real horrors of compromised personal privacy, documentation of potentially illegal activities, and a seemingly open invitation to online predators.
Q. The author would most likely agree with which of the following sentences?
  • a)
    Salvia is a highly dangerous and addictive substance that causes neurological damage.
  • b)
    An important protection for our young people is to regulate herbal substances such as salvia.
  • c)
    Online video sites should require people posting videos of themselves using salvia to prove they are 18 or older.
  • d)
    People who post salvia videos should be more explicit about the hallucinations they experienced when they come out of the high.
  • e)
    The videos of teenagers using salvia exemplify multiple concerns faced by today’s parents.
Correct answer is option 'E'. Can you explain this answer?
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In this Inference question, you are asked to identify the statement that follows from the author’s point of view as it’s expressed in the passage. The author offers two opinionated statements. He finds the video footage “uninspired” and states that it “serve(s) to compound” parental fears. One of those two statements will be paraphrased in the correct answer. The claim in (A) is not actually made in the passage. The author suggests that parents may fear possible neurological damage from salvia but suggests that the other “horrors” are “more real,” undermining this statement. Choices (B) and (C) both go beyond the scope of the passage; the author stops short of recommending solutions for the salvia problem. You can also dismiss choice (D) because, although the author does intimate that the videos are rather dull, there is no evidence that the author wants more detail about the experience.
Choice (E) matches your prediction. It is strongly suggested in the passage’s final sentence and therefore is the correct answer.
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In this Inference question, you are asked to identify the statement that follows from the author’s point of view as it’s expressed in the passage. The author offers two opinionated statements. He finds the video footage “uninspired” and states that it “serve(s) to compound” parental fears. One of those two statements will be paraphrased in the correct answer. The claim in (A) is not actually made in the passage. The author suggests that parents may fear possible neurological damage from salvia but suggests that the other “horrors” are “more real,” undermining this statement. Choices (B) and (C) both go beyond the scope of the passage; the author stops short of recommending solutions for the salvia problem. You can also dismiss choice (D) because, although the author does intimate that the videos are rather dull, there is no evidence that the author wants more detail about the experience.
Choice (E) matches your prediction. It is strongly suggested in the passage’s final sentence and therefore is the correct answer.
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