Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. That was because enough enslaved children were born, lived, and grew to become adults. There was just one exception to this rule: Louisiana, where the native-born enslaved population kept dropping. Sugar was a killer.Unlike the Caribbean, Louisiana has cold snaps. That put an additional pressure on the sugar harvest. Not only did the slaves need to harvest the cane in perfect rhythm with the grinding mills, but the entire crop had to be cut down between mid-October and December. This pace only increased when growers installed improved, steam-powered mills. People needed to work faster than the weather and to keep pace with machines.
Read the sentence.Going to the game at night was always fun, but sometimes Cooper’s spirit for his team was not enough for a win.What type of phrase is the underlined phrase in the sentence?
Read the last two lines of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,As any she belied with false compare.Which context clue best supports the definition of belied as "contradicted” or "disproved”?
Read the sentence.Marileta is staying with friends until she finds an apartment.What type of clause do the underlined words form?
Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Animal Farm.All the animals remembered passing such resolutions: or at least they thought that they remembered it. The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. Then, as usual, the sheep broke into "Four legs good, two legs bad!” and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over. Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
Which technique gives the reader information from the past to help explain a character's actions and reactions in a narrative?
Read the excerpt from chapter 10 of Animal Farm."Four legs good, two legs BETTER! Four legs good, two legs BETTER! Four legs good, two legs BETTER!"It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.
Which key details does Orwell include in this passage to support the central idea that the animals on Animal Farm had a great influence on animals at other farms? Select four answers.
What is the purpose of the cause-and-effect structure of this passage? Select two options.
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.THE WORLD’S FIRST TRUE UNIVERSITYToday, few people have heard of Jundi Shapur. But in its time, it was an exceptional university. Jundi Shapur was built in what is now Iran sometime between the 400s and mid-500s A.D. We can only guess the dates, but we do know more about the school. It was the meeting place of the world's great minds. In 529, Christians closed the school of Athens—the last link to the academies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The remaining Greek scholars moved to Jundi Shapur. Jews joined them, as did a group of Christians called Nestorians, who had their own ancient and scholarly traditions. Persians added their voices, and one of their learned doctors set off for what is now India, to gather and translate the wisdom of the Hindus. The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world, a place where the sick were treated and young doctors learned their craft, as well as a fine observatory to track the heavens. At Jundi Shapur the best scholars west of China all gathered to think and study together. By the 600s, the doctors at the school were writing about a medicine from India named sharkara or, as the Persians called it, shaker—sugar. Indeed, scholars at Jundi Shapur invented new and better ways to refine cane into sugar. Since the school had links with many of the great civilizations of Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, word of sugar and the experience of tasting its special sweetness began to spread.
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