Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the number…
Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the number of the sentence that contains the main idea. (1)In the seventeenth century, the Dutch became very fond of collecting tulip bulbs. (2)The finest bulbs gained high prices, and traders began making a profit in buying and selling them. (3)Eventually, people paid great fortunes for single tulip bulbs, kept them for a few weeks, and then sold them for even a higher price. (4)But finally, buyers realized that the bulbs were not worth the high prices demanded. (5)The great Tulip Mania came to a sudden end when prices fell greatly overnight. (6)Interest in the common Dutch tulip thus led to one of the first “crashes” in economic history. The sentence that expresses the main idea is