"just get out of here! " tara screamed. the red walls seemed to pulsate behind her in agreement.
turning around, rachel tripped over the over-sized geography books that had been carelessly thrown on the floor.
"pick up your stupid books and get 'em off the floor," she grumbled as she reached for the doorknob. she stormed out of the house and slammed the screen door shut behind her. outside, mosquitoes harassed her, temporarily distracted from the luminous porch light. swatting the air like a mad woman, she bolted down the wooden stairs and ran through the sand like a courier with an urgent delivery. gusts of wind whirled and whipped the sand, causing her to stumble.
the salty air filled her lungs as she gasped for breath. reaching the water’s edge, rachel stopped and knelt to the ground exasperated. water and foam rushed toward the shore before retreating. in its duplicity, the gentle splash of the rolling tide sounded like a reassuring whisper, and it drowned out the throbbing in her head. lifting up her eyes, her gaze was caught by a steady white reflection of the moon shimmering on the water. her defiant jaw began to relax. she looked behind her at the white house. it stood gracefully on long white wooden pillars. she knew what she had to do.
where do the events in the story mainly take place?
a)in a white house
b)on an oceanfront
c)on a sailboat
d)at a water park

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.