Question

Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone. There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked with for many years. They put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. Nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. She had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive. Which details from this excerpt best show that the author’s purpose in including this paragraph is to illustrate how hazardous the scientists’ work is? There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked with for many years. They put on their inner gloves and taped their cuffs. Nancy put a pair of hearing protectors over her ears. She had started wearing them a while back, when people had begun to suspect that the roar of air in your suit might be loud enough to damage your hearing. They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. People wearing biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like two wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other person's every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they don't hold a sharp object. This cringing becomes instinctive.

Answer 1

Answer:

The author's purpose is to show how dangerous the work of scientists is and demonstrates it by illustrating in detail all the safety measures they have to take.

Explanation:

The author recounts how Nancy had to start wearing ear protectors on her ears, demonstrating how the roar of her suit's air could damage her hearing forever.

Both wear gloves and handcuffs, and seal their spacesuits.

It even shows how it is already instinctive for them to control that no one possesses a sharp object, since the tearing of their suits would imply mortal damage.

Answer 2

The author writes about all the precautions Nancy takes before entering the hotzone. She puts on different layers of attire to keep her safe showing it is a hazardous place.