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Reading Comprehension- Question 19 of 20 Instructions Read the statement or passage and then choose the best answer to the question Answer the q implied in the statement or passage question on the basis of what is stated or Passage While the sale of most food products in the United States grows at an average rate of 1 percent per year chocolate sales grow at 3 percent per year. Americans eat more than 2 billion pounds a year. Americans will spend more than a half billion dollars for chocolate on Valentine's Day. They will satisfy their cravings with chocolate candy, chocolate milk, chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, and chocolate-covered just-about- anything-you-can-think-of Question The author uses the list in the last sentence to O show the specific areas where chocolate sales have risen nocolate products are more popular than others o indicate the extent of America's love affair with chocolate o show the extent to which Americans are willing to risk their health to satisfy a craving

Answer 1

Option 3 is correct.
The gist of this passage is how much the Americans are fascinated about the chocolates thats why its consumption rate is 3% as compared to other food product growth rate of 1%.