Read the following paragraph, and answer the question.

1Over forty years ago, a doctor at the Mayo Clinic wrote that four out of five times he'd find out what was wrong sooner if he started by examining the patient's home life, his job, and his bank account instead of his heart, his digestive system, and his kidneys. 2Many of his colleagues thought he was crazy or was at least playing a joke on them. 3He was neither crazy nor was he playing a joke. 4He had come to understand what few doctors at that time did: that bodily functions are affected by spiritual and emotional phenomena as well as by physical influences.

The main idea of the paragraph is best expressed in sentence number _____.

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4

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This is the main idea because the reason why he was examining the patient's life instead of his body and why his colleagues thought he was crazy was because of this idea that a person's spiritual and emotional well-being also affected his/her physical health. This is all summarized in sentence 4 so it is the best option.

andygast0615 andygast0615 · Answer 2 · 2019-01-24T01:56:41+01:00

The correct answer is number four. The main idea is supposed to be the most important thought from the piece of text, in other words, what the whole text should talk about.

In this case, the first paragraph talks about the background of the information, the second paragraph talks about the environment he was making assumptions in and the third one is just a perception of people surrounding him, however in the fourth paragraph, he makes the statement of what the whole text will be about, therefore, number four is the correct answer.