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AP® English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker would agree with all of the following statements except what?
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 3. What can the "personality" that the speaker describes be characterized as?
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 10. The metaphor used in lines 62 and 63 is best interpreted to mean which...
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Which of the following represents the best reading of lines 6–9 ("A single...on alcohol")?
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Okay Ap england people More on coffee and drugs which
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of the following represents the best reading of line six
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through nine Let's go find him right there A single
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company starbuck sells more than a billion dollars for the
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gavi year Americans spend more in the fifty billion dollars
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every year and cigarettes and more than one hundred billion
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dollars on alcohol From a skimmed reading of numbers it
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seems the author's proving that alcohol is the most profitable
- 00:29
legal drug However the author is trying to show how
- 00:32
insanely profitable coffee is or at least how much revenue
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goes with coffee Starbucks alone has eight billion dollars in
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revenues which means that all the coffee providers combined would
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probably make it the most profitable legal drug in america
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Starbucks measly eight billion dollars in revenue is relatively less
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than other legal drugs But it's only one retailer a
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so you could get reveille there And then there's no
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mention of where coffee stands with the ranks in total
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like where'd that come from Good bye b The other
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doesn't address the markets for drugs until wait later in
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the passage and doesn't declare preferences at all Probably because
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he was hopped up on caffeine yet happens the best
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of us So the answer is though it seems americans
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spend more money on tobacco and alcohol The author is
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on ly including profits from one coffee retailer at least 00:01:16.547 --> [endTime] revenues from them and leases that's written
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