The answer to your question is A: The downpour suggests the idea of misery, I just answered it myself into apexvs
Carl said (that) it was his birthday today
Answer:
A - "in India . . . it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies"
B - "the first written record of sugar"
Explanation:
From the passage, the details that would best fit in a summary of the passage would be options A and B because they contain the necessary details to sum up the entire passage.
From the passage, it is told that sugar was first recorded in India as being used as an offering in religious ceremonies.
It is explained in the passage that the ancient Sumerians first traded with the people of Harappa and Mohenjo in sugar but unfortunately the writings from that period are still not being able to be read.
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
