UDIO A TR
The United States is a diverse nation. For hundreds of
years, it's been home to people of varying nationalities and
ethnicities. Most are either immigrants or the descendants
of people who came here from somewhere else.
Which would be the closest antonym for the word varying, as it
is used above?
A. Similar
B. Distinct
C. Native
D. Foreign

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.

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Check for errors. flora and fauna e to each of its four parts of the british isles 1. the warm and wet elimate of great britain is very good for plants. 2.that's why the country looka like a big beautiful .3.centuries ago there were a lot of foresta in the british isles, but now garden. 4.you can find big foresta only in a few parts of the country- the north of scotland and the southeast and southwest of england. 5.the most com- mon trees in england are onks, elma and beeches while scotland han a lot of pines, firs and birches. 6. the fauna, or animal life in the british isles is like in the northwest of europe.