Question

Athletes go where they find success. Basketball is a difficult sport to master. Unless you’re willing to put in the time and effort and have a certain level of athleticism and hand-eye skills, you will not be successful. You will be pushed out of the sport because of what it demands. In volleyball, those barriers are lower.

A. “Basketball is a difficult sport to master.”

B. “Unless you’re willing to put in the time and effort and have a certain level of athleticism and hand-eye skills, you will not be successful.”

C. “You will be pushed out of the sport because of what it demands.”

D. “In volleyball, those barriers are lower.”

Answer 1

What do you want me to do with these choices — identify the main conclusion, pick the best supporting premise, find an assumption, or something else?

If you mean "Which of the listed sentences best supports the opening claim 'Athletes go where they find success'?" the best answer is D ("In volleyball, those barriers are lower.") — it directly explains where athletes can more easily find success. If you mean "Which is the passage's main conclusion?" that's the first sentence ("Athletes go where they find success."), which isn't among A–D.