The correct answer is a. assumptions
Assumptions are thoughts and opinions, so it's the only word whose lexical meaning fits the sentence.
A revision that would help expand the ideas in this passage can be adding a clear description of Rainsford’s overall conflict. It would be better to include a backstory or a glimpse of the history and relationship between Rainsford and General Zaroff, and why they had a conflict.
The correct answer is A. In the Middle Ages, spices that are now ordinary were rare imports from faraway places.
Explanation
The excerpt talks about traders who traded in black pepper grown in southwestern India, which meant too long a journey to bring these products to Europe. In the first place they had to be transported to Arabia, and from there to Syria where European merchants acquired it to take it to the different kingdoms of Europe as the author mentions when saying that "From India the pepper was shipped across to Arabia, where camel caravans would carry it all the way to Syria. The Italians could purchase enough pepper in Syria to carry with them to the next Champagne fair". According to the above, the correct answer is A. In the Middle Ages, spices that are now ordinary were rare imports from faraway places.
Answer:
The answer is D. audience gave a well-deserved.
Explanation:
Audiences normally <em>give </em>and not <em>receive </em>applauses, so this is the error in the sentence, which allows us to eliminate the other which don't have a "gave" for verb, which basically are options: A, C and E.
Why isn't B? Well, because our rule about hyphens in adjectives, tells us that if the adjective goes before the noun, it should be hyphenated. But, if the adjective goes after, then it should not. In this case, our noun is "applause" and as you can see it goes after the "well-deserved" adjective, so this is the reason why it's hyphenated. Other story would be if it said: <em>the round of applause was well deserved (</em>no hyphen, as it goes after).
