Which sentence best readers determine the central idea of the paragraph?

a. "perhaps the most difficult thing to come to terms with is the scale of death."
b. "however, you have never encountered anything like elizabethan flu."’
c. "influenza, for example, is an affliction which you no doubt have come across."
d. "another familiar disease is malaria, which elizabethans refer to as ague or fever."

A). "Perhaps the most difficult thing to come to terms with is the scale of death."

Explanation:

The central idea is illustrated as the main idea that the author wishes to convey through a particular text. It is the idea that reflects the theme of the work and binds all the elements of a text together and come together as a whole to display the dominant idea.

As per the question, the sentence that best reflects the central idea of the paragraph is displayed through options A and that is 'the most difficult thing to deal with is the scale of death'. It mirrors the dominant idea that surrounds the paragraph as reflected by the description of 'Influenza', 'Elizabethan flu', and 'death rates leading to 7.2 percent as compared to 2.5 percent normally. Thus, option A is the correct answer.

in "people in peace, not profit and war" chrisholm uses inductive reasoning for her argument against defense spending by stating that the new administration, like most americans, wanted to invest in social objectives, so they must not want to prioritize defense spending. mr. nixon said "we can delay no longer in launching new approaches to the problem that beset them", but chrisholm points out that the programs were delayed anyways.