Answer:
D, having a party.
Explanation:
The others are all thing's you'd normally do alone. :)
Answer:
A. Imagine yourself in the story's settings and the character's situations.
The correct option is this: TABLEWARE WAS RARER IN ELIZABETHAN TIMES THAN IT IS TODAY.
From the passage, it can be seen that, during Elizabethan times, people has to go to invited diners armed with their own spoons and knives. During dinner, cups were not placed on the table because they were scarce, instead many guests share one cup. All these show that tableware were scarce commodities during that time.
Jake likes cupcakes MORE than cake because they are BETTER. More and better are both comparative words.
Superlative would be words like "the best" "most"-basically the most extreme positive adjective for things.