Karina is writing a paragraph comparing and contrasting her experiences on her school’s lacrosse and soccer teams.
point: like the soccer team captains, the lacrosse team captains really set the tone for the season.
illustration: shane and millie, the seniors on the lacrosse squad, organized a team dinner and movie night, while nina, the soccer captain, barely even acknowledged us first-year players.
based on the point and illustration, which is the best explanation or analysis of the evidence?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.