Click on the question mark. Choose the MOST reasonable inference

based on the text evidence and what you already know.

Text Evidence

What You Already know

Inference

"...contact lenses were not

Many people today wear

widely used until after the

contact lenses.

1940s. That's when companies

began manufacturing contact

lenses from plastic."

Companies manufactured contact lenses from plastic because it was

much cheaper.

Plastic was too hard for companies to find until after the 1940s.

Plastic contact lenses have continued to be popular since the 1950s.

People only bought plastic contact lenses after their old ones broke or

got scratched

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is different from honey. it offers a stronger sweet flavor, and like steel or plastic, it had to be invented. in the age of sugar, europeans bought a product made thousands of miles away that was less expensive than the honey from down the road. that was possible only because sugar set people in motion all across the world—millions of them as slaves, in chains; a few in search of their fortunes. a perfect taste made possible by the most brutal labor: that is the dark story of sugar. how does the comparison of sugar to honey reveal the authors’ purpose? it persuades readers that sugar tastes better than honey. it informs readers that there is a connection between slavery and sugar. it informs readers that honey had a major impact on society. it persuades readers that sugar is as important an invention as steel.

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?