A student is writing an editorial and wants to revise the draft. Read the two paragraphs from the student's article and answer the question that follows.

The 2014 opening of the Writing Center was an enormous benefit to students at our high school. Any skepticism about the project was quelled within weeks, as workshops and open tutoring hours quickly filled up. While only anecdotal evidence is available, faculty in the English department credit the center with improved student planning, writing, and editing.

The proposed Mathematics Center would have similar offerings: drop-in hours for one-on-one tutoring, workshops, and a multi-media resource library, as well as space for study groups and group work. The benefits of such a program seem obvious, and the administration has not fully explained its reasons for delaying a decision. Students and faculty have a right to know.

Which sentence would provide the BEST transition between the two paragraphs?
-Students say that having a space to work together and focus on a single subject greatly aids understanding of the content.
-Given the success of the Writing Center, it is curious to me that the proposal for a similar Mathematics Center has had such a lukewarm reception.
-Research studies have shown that creating content-area-focused environments reaps huge rewards in terms of students' academic gains.
-A group of students and their faculty sponsors have proposed the establishment of a Mathematics Center that would be open to all students at the high school.

*It's not D

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.