Answer:
The first sentence if modified can make the paragraph into a stronger argumentative speech.
Explanation:
Current opening sentence: Genetically modified foods unequally benefit rich countries, including the United States.
Revised opening sentence: Rich countries including the United States currently enjoy more benefits from the production and sale of Genetically Modified Foods than developing nations.
So the complete paragraph looks like this:
<em>Rich countries including the United States currently enjoy more benefits from the production and sale of Genetically Modified Foods than developing nations. The USDA reports that the US gained the vast majority of the total world benefit from new herbicide-tolerant soybeans in 1997. In addition, the US company that created the soybeans charged farmers a technology fee. These high adoption costs will continue to limit the benefits of genetically modified crops to rich countries that do not need the higher yields, rather than extending them to poorer nations that do.</em>
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In revising the first paragraph, we are able to go in with a stronger argument or hook which is critical to an argumentative essay.
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From the excerpt, we can see that words like no light, no sun, are used. Therefore, the phrase that best characterizes the somber mood of the excerpt is:
<h3>Somber mood</h3>
Somber mood refers to a situation, moods or facial expressions that are usually gloomy, not bright, sad and depressing.
We can see that from the excerpt, the sentence, "<em>The day had been a sorry one for business: no light, no sun, no stay of the downpour of penetrating mist which had been swept through the city by the driving south wind from the late dawn to the mock of sunset</em>." reveals that the excerpt is characterized by a somber mood.
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I can't speak for the italics because they aren't showing up here, but "B. Who painted "Starry
<span> Night," Van Gogh or Cezanne?</span>" is correct. So is D if the title of the book is italics.
The correct answer is the first statement.
