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Which text evidence best supports the authors' claim
that sugar became an essential source of energy to
English workers in the 1800s?
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
Traditionally, English workers had brewed their own beer,
which they drank along with bread, their other major
source of food. A Scottish writer of the late 1700s noticed
that tea had become an economical substitute to the
middle and lower classes of society for malt liquor,"
which they could no longer afford. "Tea," which had to be
transported from Asia, and "sugar brought from the West
Indies ... compose a drink cheaper than beer." The new
drink soon became not only cheap but necessary.
Why did the English, in particular, need a low-cost, filling
hot drink? In a word: factories. England was the first
country in the world to shift from making most of its
money in traditional places, such as farms, mines, or
small shops, to factories. In the early 1800s the English
figured out how to build machines to weave cloth, and
how to organize workers so that they could run the
O "Traditionally, English workers had brewed their own
beer, which they drank along with bread, their other
major source of food."
O "England was the first country in the world to shift
from making most of its money in traditional places,
such as farms, mines, or small shops, to factories."
O "Starting around 1800, sugar became the staple food
that allowed the English factories-the most
advanced economies in the world to run."
O "Sugar supplied the energy, the hint of nutrition, the
sweet taste to go with the warmth of tea that even the
poorest factory worker could look forward to."
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