Read the excerpt from the supporting text "Disease Central" in When Birds Get Flu by John DiConsiglio.
In 1958, scientists at the CDC made their first trip overseas. A team went to Southeast Asia to respond to an epidemic of
smallpox and cholera.
The author uses this passage to help the reader focus on
o why Dr. Dowell is in Thailand.
why epidemics are dangerous.
O why scientists work for the CDC.
O why the CDC was formed.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is different from honey. it offers a stronger sweet flavor, and like steel or plastic, it had to be invented. in the age of sugar, europeans bought a product made thousands of miles away that was less expensive than the honey from down the road. that was possible only because sugar set people in motion all across the world—millions of them as slaves, in chains; a few in search of their fortunes. a perfect taste made possible by the most brutal labor: that is the dark story of sugar. how does the comparison of sugar to honey reveal the authors’ purpose? it persuades readers that sugar tastes better than honey. it informs readers that there is a connection between slavery and sugar. it informs readers that honey had a major impact on society. it persuades readers that sugar is as important an invention as steel.

What is the central idea in this advice from branch rickey to jackie robinson?  

Antony refers to brutus and his co conspirators as honorable. what effect does the continued repetition of this word have on the tone of the words around it?