Read this passage: Hansel and Gretel lived on the edge of a dark and foreboding forest. One day, while exploring, they were capt
ured by a horrible witch who threatened to eat them. Though they were frightened, the children devised an escape plan. When the witch was ready to eat them, they fought back, eventually pushing the witch into the oven and running away. When they got back to their home, they told their parents about their adventure and promised never to go back into the woods again. Which sentence from the passage is the exposition?A. Though they were frightened, the children devised an escape plan. B. Hansel and Gretel lived on the edge of a dark and foreboding forest.
C. When they got back to their home, they told their parents about their adventure. . . .
D. When the witch was ready to eat them, they fought back, eventually pushing the witch into the oven and running away.
The Opium Wars were two conflicts fought in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911/12.
