Answer:
A or B.
Explanation:
Not C as the information seems to be given in a appropriate order. Not D as there is no topic sentence.
My bet is between A & B.
Answer:
Biologists backed up these ideas with sketches and models based on known animals.
Explanation:
The sentence from paragraph 4 which makes an explicit statement without offering any implicit suggestions is Biologists backed up these ideas with sketches and models based on known animals.
From the excerpt, the narrator is talking about how a dragon would have been like, how its stomach would have been like if it could actually fly and spit out fire.
The narrator is unsure of what to believe but he says that when the animal died, then its stomach could release strong acids which would dissolve its carcass over time and made the explicit statement that biologists have backed up the ideas based on known animals, even if not everybody agreed with their ideas.
Ofcourse the initial thing to ask when reading a text is What is the author's purpose in writing this text.
Explanation: The initial thing to ask is the author's purpose of his writing because if someone writes there should be a purpose beyond it, and that purpose should be known to understand the text. For example if a writer writes about the abolition of slavery you should know the purpose of his writing. Without knowing how could you get the text.
Answer:
The writers feared getting trouble
Explanation:
Writers had to use hard-to-understand formats to put all the statements they wanted without fear of going through trouble. This is because writers often wrote works in which they criticized governments, the nobles or powerful people. These criticisms caused writers to be persecuted and sometimes even arrested and tortured for their aggressive opinions about certain behaviors and actions. Using hard-to-understand formats, criticism sometimes went unnoticed and only noticed by the most curious and intelligent readers. That kept the writers safe.