Sentence Restatement: Hunger and Food Appeal
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10. The idea that hunger makes food look more appealing is not wrong.
A) What is wrong is to eat whatever food you happen to find when you are hungry.
B) It's true that food looks more attractive than it actually is when you are hungry.
C) Hungry people can do anything to be able to find some amount of food.
D) Hungry people's efforts to find food at any cost is understandable.
E) Even the least delicious food was worth a lot because we hadn't eaten anything for days.
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In this exercise, we are looking for the option that expresses the same meaning as the given sentence. Let's analyze the sentence and then check each choice.
Sentence Restatement
The target sentence is: The idea that hunger makes food look more appealing is not wrong. Let's break this down.
Notice the phrase not wrong. This is a double negative used for emphasis, simply meaning it is true or correct.
So, the core message is: when you are hungry, food seems more attractive or appealing than it normally would. Let's evaluate the options.
Option A discusses what is wrong to eat. That's a moral judgment not present in the original sentence, so we can rule it out.
~~A) What is wrong is to eat whatever food...~~
Option B says: It's true that food looks more attractive than it actually is when you are hungry.
B) It's true that food looks more attractive than it actually is when you are hungry.
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