The tall mountains of Southwest Asia have frigid peaks. When clouds from the Mediterranean Sea hit the mountains of Southwest Asia, they drop their rain. As a result, the land east of the mountains gets very little rain. For this reason, much of Southwest Asia is
hot and dry. Areas near the Mediterranean Sea have warm, dry summers and mild, rainy winters.
How can the first sentence be revised to improve the coherence and overall quality of the paragraph?
OA. The Mediterranean area receives little rain in the summer.
OB. Europe and Asia have very different cultures. How can the first sentence be revised to improve the coherence and overall quality of the paragraph?
OC. The Mediterranean and Southwest Asia have very different climates.
OD. Ionce visited the Mediterranean.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is different from honey. it offers a stronger sweet flavor, and like steel or plastic, it had to be invented. in the age of sugar, europeans bought a product made thousands of miles away that was less expensive than the honey from down the road. that was possible only because sugar set people in motion all across the world—millions of them as slaves, in chains; a few in search of their fortunes. a perfect taste made possible by the most brutal labor: that is the dark story of sugar. how does the comparison of sugar to honey reveal the authors’ purpose? it persuades readers that sugar tastes better than honey. it informs readers that there is a connection between slavery and sugar. it informs readers that honey had a major impact on society. it persuades readers that sugar is as important an invention as steel.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

Based on structural elements what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 congressional address by president woodrow wilson exemplify