Getting a handle on your spending can be a bitter

Question

pill to swallow. So a bitter beverage might be just
the thing to keep your finances on track, according
to this study. Researchers looked at the effects of
mood and flavor on participants’ tendency to
spend or save. They hypothesized that happy
participants would be more likely to spend and less
likely to save and that this could change
depending on shifts in mood. They also thought
that moods might shift based on particularly sharp
tastes. The researchers put all this to the test by
measuring participants’ moods before and after

randomly assigning them to drink either bitter-
melon-flavored, salty, or plain water. After

consuming the water, the participants completed
an exercise in which they indicates the likelihood
that they would save an extra allowance received
each month. They found that baseline happy
participants who consumed the bitter drink were
more likely to save compared with those who drank
pure or salty water and also expressed more worry
about the future than these other groups.
The four-day school week by Denise-Marie Ordway
Critics point out the change to the four

day school week can be tough on lower-
income parents, who may have trouble

paying for childcare on the day there kids

no longer have class. Also, some low-
income students rely on public schools for

almost half their meals — breakfasts and
lunches during the week. Paul T. Hill a
research professor at the University of
Washington Bothell, has argued that
while some adults like the new schedule,
this “troubling development” could end
up hurting rural students. “The idea has
proved contagious because adults like it:

Teachers have more free time, and stay-
at-home parents like the convenience of

taking kids to doctors and doing errands
on Friday,” Hill co-wrote in a piece
published on the Brown Center
Chalkboard blog in 2017.

Choose the correct way to
begin the sentence.
A First a bitter beverage
B But a bitter beverage
C Because a bitter beverage
D correct as is

Answer 1

The correct way to begin the sentence is B But a bitter beverage. This choice introduces a contrast to the preceding statement about managing spending, suggesting that the beverage might be a solution to the difficulty of handling finances.