Read the following paragraph : "Risotto doesn't deserve its bad reputation. Don't be scared off by the many cooking show contestants that this creamy rice dish has sent packing. If you can hold a spoon and stir, you can make it. The only difficult skill required is patience. Risotto must be stirred constantly as it cooks, which takes twenty or thirty minutes. No stepping away to chop vegetables, set the tableor send a few texts. A little focus is all it takes." Which choice below is the topic sentence ? Risotto doesn't deserve its bad reputation. If you can hold a spoon and stir, you can make it. A little focus is all it takes Don't be scared off by the many cooking show contestants that this creamy rice dish has sent packing

The correct answer is A. Risotto doesn't deserve its bad reputation.

Explanation

The author of the text seeks to vindicate the reputation of risotto as a difficult preparation to cook. This reputation has been built on "many cooking show contestants that this creamy rice dish has sent packing." However, the author emphasizes that cooking this rice requires "patience" because its preparation requires "Risotto must be stirred constantly as it cooks, which takes twenty or thirty minutes". According to the above, the topic sentence of the fragment is "Risotto doesn't deserve its bad reputation" because this sentence expresses the general idea of the paragraph and this idea is explaining by the author through details such as "If you can hold a spoon and stir, you can make it". So, the correct answer is A.

to give the reader a sense of the chaos, fear, and havoc taking place