The body does not absorb as many nutrients from supplements as you would think. Furthermore, many
supplements are mislabeled because they are not
regulated by the FDA. One can better ensure the proper
absorption of, say, vitamin C, by eating oranges than by
taking pills. One can get more protein and iron from eating
eggs than from consuming powders. The examples go on.
Which sentence best describes the message of the passage?
A. The FDA does not regulate supplements like it does foods.
B. Energy bars can supply nutrients, but most are full of sugar.
C. Foods are a
etter source of nutrients than supplements.
D. The body does not absorb many nutrients from supplements.

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lane. i attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. i have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. algernon. good heavens! is marriage so demoralising as that? this excerpt best illustrates which feature of a comedy of manners?

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage