Question

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.

When knowledge of sugar was just beginning to spread from India, from Persia, from Greece, from the great school of Jundi Shapur, cooks working for the wealthiest people treated it as a spice, blending it with other tastes. They continued to do that for another thousand years.

What evidence from the passage supports the inference that sugar was expensive and not available to everyone?

"from the great school of Jundi Shapur"
"cooks working for the wealthiest people"
"treated it as a spice, blending it with other tastes"
"They continued to do that for another thousand years"

Answer 1

The best evidence is:
- "cooks working for the wealthiest people" — shows sugar was used by the rich, implying it wasn’t widely available.
- "treated it as a spice, blending it with other tastes" — comparing sugar to a spice suggests it was costly/used sparingly.

The other two lines don’t support that inference.