Help 30 points Cherry’s piano teacher, Mrs. Roberts, was insistent about daily practice. “You’ll never get better by just coming to lessons once or twice a week,” she said. But Cherry resisted because there were so many other things to do that were more fun to her. Besides, she had practiced on several occasions, and she couldn’t see any improvement at all. “Practice accumulates, and you haven’t practiced enough times,” Mrs. Roberts said. “Think of your practice as a chain, and every day you practice you put another link in your chain. If you will put 24 links in your chain over the next month, I promise you, you will see an improvement in your piano playing.”

What is Mrs. Roberts doing when she compares practice to a chain?

(1 Point)
challenging Cherry to practice on time
showing how a little effort accumulates
saying links in a chain are like piano keys
suggesting Cherry chain herself to her piano

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.