With its wide variety of styles and tastes, pasta is considered one of America's favorite foods. In the year 2000 alone, Americans consumed 1.3 million pounds of pasta. That’s enough to wrap the world in pasta 9 times! A trip to the grocery store will reveal the amazing variety that pasta offers. Pasta comes in many different shapes and sizes. Some are string shaped like spaghetti and vermicelli. Others are ribbon shaped like fettuccine and linguine. There are short tubes like elbow macaroni and penne, but there are also unique shapes like farfalle and rotelle. Other types include large sheets like lasagna and stuffed pasta like ravioli, manicotti, and tortellini.
The shape and characteristics of each variety's surface makes it better suited for certain kinds of sauce. Fettuccine goes best with alfredo sauce, and spaghetti goes best with tomato sauce. Lasagna wouldn’t be lasagna without those characteristically large sheets, and macaroni is a must in macaroni and cheese.

This passage is mainly about
A. the world popularity of pasta.
B. the variety that pasta offers.
C. the different types of sauces.
D. why people love to eat pasta.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”

The following passage is an example of what type of text structure? as you begin, mix the flour and butter with a fork until the pieces are small. next, add the milk and mix just until incorporated before rolling out the dough.

Based on the map, which city will marco polo describe after kalhat if he continues northwest across the arabian sea? hormuz dhofar socotra venice