Read this passage: proof found in australia links humans to dinosaurs the australian society for the study of subcutaneous cultures (asssc) today released information about the discovery of a previously unknown species of human that could provide more insight to when humans first walked the earth. a complete skeleton found on the coast plains, near melbourne, has anthropologists excited about the possibility of adding another link to the chain of human history. scientist peter l. reilly describes the find: "this mammal, which we have named homo jurassicus parkus, appears to share several similarities with both modern humans and jurassic-era dinosaurs. the skull shape, for instance, measures only 1/15th of a centimeter larger than the common homo sapiens skull, and the metatarsal bones of the feet share a distinctive pattern with those identified from fossils belonging to compsognathus, a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous dinosaurs that are believed to have lived over 150 million years ago." researchers have been flocking to the canady site in hopes of finding more proof that dinosaurs and humans share a deeper connection than previously thought. why might people accept this article as fact? a. it includes information that people find interesting. b. it quotes a scientist who seems to know a lot about the topic. c. it uses short sentences that give a lot of information. d. it refers to the names of real people and places.

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.