Read a text trailer for the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Harry Potter seems at first glance normal, a boy living an unusual life with his dull and rather mean Dursley relatives. However, on Harry's eleventh birthday, he learns from a mysterious stranger, Rubeus Hagrid, that he is actually a wizard. Forbidden by his uncle from seeking out his magical destiny, letters rain down inviting Harry to attend the magic school of Hogwarts. What follows is an adventure story of intrigue, discoveries, and sacrifice. Which best describes the tone of this trailer?

serious
scary
anxious
angry

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.