Which detail from the excerpt best supports the inference that food was more consistently available in larger towns? pig farmers keep their flitches of bacon back in storage until they can get a better price for them later in the winter. such tactics are made even more profitable by the unhappy fact that harvests can fail, causing local—and sometimes national—food shortages. large towns are less vulnerable, being part of an international market that sees preserved foods traded long-distance; but much of the countryside is dependent on fresh food. after a poor harvest, prices for all commodities—not just grain—rise dramatically and the poor are unable to make ends meet.

Which excerpt is told from third-person point of view? o a. i walked slowly along the canal and said aloud to myself, "emma, what are you doing here? " b. you walked slowly along the canal and said aloud to yourself, "i have no idea what i'm doing here. c. emma walked sidly along the canal and said aloud to herself. "i don't have a clue what i'm doing here." d. walking slowly along the canal. i said aloud to myself, "emma, you have no idea what you're doing here.

Ihave only a christmas cards left to write. a. few b. fewer c. less d. little

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.