Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. With the rise of Islam, Egypt became the world's great sugar laboratory. The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark—the color comes from molasses, which also makes that form of sugar spicy and even bitter. What we call molasses is just a natural part of the first grinding of sugar cane into syrup. Sugar refiners drain out the dark molasses to use by itself and are left with relatively white sugar. The noble and wealthy, who could afford sugar, wanted it to be as pure, sweet, and white as possible. The Egyptians figured out how to meet that need. What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that white sugar was rarer and more valuable than brown sugar? Select two options. "Egypt became the world's great sugar laboratory" "The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark" "drain out the dark molasses to use by itself" "wanted it to be as pure, sweet, and white as possible" "Egyptians figured out how to meet that need"

"the kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark" and "wanted it to be pure, sweet, and white as possible"

Explanation:

"the kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark": shows that white sugar takes more effort to procure, therefore rarer than dark sugar.

"wanted it to be pure, sweet, and white as possible": the noble and wealthy wanted white sugar. this shows that it is valued by those of higher status. as they wanted it white as possible, it is clear that white sugar is valued more than dark sugar.

answer; ///(a) and (c) newspaper article and instruction manual; //so the answer is (e)

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.