Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question. Protecting the People by Eric Ameson (1)Imagine buying meat that turns out to be rotten. Or imagine purchasing medicines or health products that either have no value or are more likely to make you sicker than better. Today, American consumers have some protections agains tainted food and harmful medicines because the government forbids much false advertising.requires scientific testing of medicines, and sets inspection standards for meat and poultry. (2)A little more than a century ago, however,American consumers were completely on their own, with no protections in place And,it urns out, the foods they ate and the medicines they took put them at great risk Advertisements promised-falsely - that certain rugs would cure headaches,rhoumatism, tuberculosis, colds, and even alcoholism. Many of these "cures" contained aloohol, pium, or other dangerous drugs or poisons that did more harm than good. And consumers were unaware of the unsanitary anditions under which meat was produced or if it had spoiled. In the early 20th century, reformers began asking questions and speaking out against tainted food, false advertising, and useless sangerous medicines. Muckraking journalists -investigative writers -turned up evidence that greatly alarmed their readers. osés in widely read magazines, such as Ladies Home Journal and Collier's Weekly, challenged the false claims of patent ficine companies and called attention to the dangers they posed. The muckrakers went further and accused American spapers and magazines of aiding in the abuse by accepting money and running the false and dangerous advertisements for products. ding to Americans' concerns were the horrifying articles about bad meat. In October 1904, a young aspiring writer named Sinclair spent time in Packingtown, the working-class district in Chicago, Illinois,where residents labored in huge acking plants. In his autobiography. Sinclair explained that he had gone to live "among the wage slaves of the Beef Trust" for weeks. He "sat at night in the homes of the workers, foreign-born and native, and they told me their stories.one after another. Part B Which sentence from the passage best supports the answer to Part A (Question 8)? The muckrakers went further and accused American newspapers and magazines of aiding in the abuse by accepting money and running the false and dangerous advertisements for these products (paragraph 3) A disappointed Sinclair lator concluded that while he had "aimed at the public's heart" and had hoped to arouse sympathy for workers poor conditions, "by accident I hit it in the stomach." (paragraph 6) Critics noted that inspections often proved inadequate and that contaminated food and harmful medicines still made their way into stores and pharmacles. (paragraph 9) Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an established part of the federal government and is responsible for protecting and promoting good public health for citizons of the United States. (paragraph 10)