Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How does the heading serve the authors' purpose?
THE AGE OF HONEY
® It lets the reader know that the authors are going to
There was a time before sugar, when those white grains
describe how honey relates to the story of sugar.
that melt on your tongue did not exist anywhere on earth.
It suggests that the authors think that honey is more
Historians speak of the Iron Age, the Bronze Age
important because it was used before
sugar.
metals that were used in weapons and tools. But we
could just as well speak of the first several thousand
It informs the reader that the authors are going to talk
years of human history as the Age of Honey.
about many different types of sweeteners.
It reveals that the authors will focus on how honey is
madeand why it is still a popular sweetener.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky