Select the number of the topic sentence in the paragraph below.
(1) According to a study conducted by the United Nations, Americans work much longer hours than Europeans. (2) In the United States, about 86% of men and 66% of women work more than 40 hours per week. (3) In contrast, few Europeans ever work over 40 hours per week, and full-time workers in several European counties, such as France, work as little as 30-35 hours per week. (4) The average American puts in 1,800 hours per year on the job; in some European counties, full-time workers put in as few as 1,400 hours per year. (5) Companies typically give their full-time American employees only two week’s paid vacation every year whereas they give European workers 4-6 week’s annual vacation leave. (6) European counties have laws that guarantee workers a minimum amount of vacation time and limit the length of the workweek to a maximum of 48 hours. (7) The United States, however, has no such laws for its workers.
A) Sentence 1
B) Sentence 2
C) Sentence 7
A) Sentence 1
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