Question

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 their space suits and sealed the ziploc zippers. they ed around each other as they fiddled with their suits. people in biohazard space suits tend to step around one another like wrestlers at the beginning of a match, watching the other every move, especially watching the hands to make sure they dont 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?

Explanation:

To determine the details showing the hazardous work, we analyze:

• "hearing protectors" (loud air roar may damage hearing) and "biohazard space suits", "step around one another like wrestlers", "watching hands to ensure no sharp object" (safety precautions due to danger) illustrate the hazards. These details show the risks (hearing damage, biohazard, injury from sharp objects) scientists face, supporting the purpose to show hazardous work.

Answer:

Details like Nancy wearing hearing protectors (due to risk of hearing damage from suit roar), scientists using biohazard space suits, and the cautious behavior (stepping around like wrestlers, watching for sharp objects) best illustrate the hazardous nature of their work.