Direction: Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow. Sanitation…
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Direction: Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
Sanitation and hygiene are critical to health, survival, and development. Many countries are challenged in providing adequate sanitation for their entire populations, leaving people at risk for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related diseases. Throughout the world, an estimated 2.4 billion people lack basic sanitation (more than 32% of the world’s population). Basic sanitation is described as having access to facilities for the safe disposal of human waste (feces and urine), as well as having the ability to maintain hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection, industrial/hazardous waste management, and wastewater treatment and disposal.
The world did not achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal (MDG) sanitation target (i.e., to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation by 2015). Now, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development goal (SDG) is for everyone to have “adequate and equitable” sanitation by 2030.
Question:
In the above paragraph, author wants to convey
- A.
Importance of Sustainable Development Goals
- B.
Importance of Sanitation and Hygiene
- C.
Importance of Environment
- D.
Importance of United Nations
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Correct answer: B
Answer: Importance of Sanitation and Hygiene
Explanation:
The paragraph opens with a clear statement that sanitation and hygiene are critical to health, survival, and development, which establishes the main focus.
The statistic that an estimated 2.4 billion people lack basic sanitation highlights the scale of the sanitation and hygiene problem discussed.
References to past Millennium Development Goal results and the Sustainable Development Goal for adequate sanitation provide context showing efforts to address sanitation and hygiene, not that the UN or the SDGs are the main subject.
Therefore, the passage primarily emphasizes the importance of sanitation and hygiene.