Read this passage from a persuasive essay about animal testing. which sentence provides evidence of a new technique that doesn’t require animal testing?

many supporters claim that the suffering of the animals is an acceptable price to pay for the benefits to humanity. but are there no other alternatives? most animal experiments can in be replaced with safer and equally effective testing methods. however, companies involved in animal experimentation refuse to try different kinds of experiments. take the example of the beauty industry, which continues to experiment on animals. the alternative—in vitro toxicity testing—involves tests conducted on cultured bacteria or mammalian cells in a lab. in fact, the european union banned animal testing in 2009. israel and india followed in 2013.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.