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> Week 1 (a

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context.

Then, choose the best answers.

> Week 2 (8

n 1. Read the excerpt. Determine the

word meanings by using

context. Then, choose the best

answer.

A Leaf in the Storm

by Marie Louise de la Ramée

✓ Week 38

Peril means

Mond

Osafety

1 And all this while the war went on, but seemed far from them, so seldom

did any tidings of it pierce the seclusion in which they dwelt. By and by, as

the autumn went on, they learned a little more. Fugitives coming to the

smithy for a horse's shoe; women fleeing to their old village homes from

their light, happy life in the city; mandates from the government of defense

sent to every hamlet in the country; stray news-sheets brought in by carriers

or hawkers and hucksters, -all these by deg

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.