Desire for the drink increased in the eighteenth century, but government taxes kept the price high, so a vigorous smuggling trade developed to avoid the excise duty.
the phrase acts as a synonym context clue to the reader understand “excise duty
a: drink increased
b; 18th century
c: government taxes
d: trade developed

Do not use this medicine with milk, cheese, or other dairy products. what end punctuation needs to be added to the above bolded word?

Which two sentences in this excerpt from the time machine by h.g. wells suggest that the morlocks possesses a degree of intelligence comparable to that of humans

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.