Read this excerpt from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts,
which I hope will not be liable to the least objection
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my
acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well
nursed is at least a year old a most delicious, nourishing,
and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or
boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a
fricassee or a ragout
grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very
proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured
most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the
children
How does Swift use satire to achieve his purpose?
O A. He reveals a solution that should be broadly accepted by
everyone
B. He exaggerates the problems of Ireland to gather support
for his reasonable suggestion
C. He suggests an extreme solution to draw attention to a
real problem
O D. He discusses an obvious solution for problems in Ireland
to draw attention to how much people are obsessing over
them

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.

Use a dictionary to find the primary accent in the word. type an "a" in the box above the syllable that should be accented. unilateral.

Choose the pronoun that can replace the underlined word(s) in each sentence. mr. ruiz gave the students some homework. answer "them" the check arrived in the mail today. choose the pronoun that can replace the underlined word(s) in each sentence. mr. ruiz gave the students some homework. answer "them" the check arrived in the mail today."it" devon is saving money so that devon can buy a new video game."he" everyone is excited that anyone’s name could be drawn in the raffle. "his or her"