Sugar Changed the World, Part 3: Word Choice and Multimedia
Question 4 • CA-English Language Arts 10 A
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.Traditionally, English workers had brewed their own beer, which they drank along with bread, their other major source of food. A Scottish writer of the late 1700s noticed that tea had "become an economical substitute to the middle and lower classes of society for malt liquor," which they could no longer afford. "Tea," which had to be transported from Asia, and "sugar brought from the West Indies . . . compose a drink cheaper than beer." The new drink
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"Traditionally, English workers had brewed their own beer, which they drank along with bread, their other major source of food."
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"England was the first country in the world to shift from making most of its money in traditional places, such as farms, mines, or small shops, to factories."
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"Starting around 1800, sugar became the staple food that allowed the English factories—the most advanced economies in the world—to run."
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"Sugar supplied the energy, the hint of nutrition, the sweet taste to go with the warmth of tea that even the poorest factory worker could look forward to."