Read the passage. All over the country of [China] there is a kind of black stone existing in beds in the mountains, which they dig out and burn like firewood. If you supply the fire with them at night, and see that they are well kindled, you will find them still alight in the morning, and they make such fine fuel that no other is used throughout the country. It is true that they have plenty of wood also, but they do not burn it, because those stones burn better and cost less.

–The Travels of Marco Polo,
Rustichello da Pisa

Which conclusions does the passage best support? Choose three correct answers.

China burned coal more than wood for heat.
Marco Polo wrote about a new energy source from China.
China had used up most of its wood by clearing land for farming.
China lacked coal resources that could be easily mined and burned.
Marco Polo helped spread technology and ideas from China to Europe.

A, B, E.

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president carter called the victims of kidnapping "victims of terrorism and anarchy" and added that the united states was not going to give in to blackmail. in the united states, they see hostage-taking as an outrage on the part of the islamist movement that violated the principle of international law on the immunity and inviolability of diplomats and their embassies.

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