The Paragraph Below Is Developed by a Specific Mode or Pattern

question 54

Multiple Choice

The paragraph below is developed by a specific mode or pattern. Read the paragraph; then answer the question(s) .
(1) New Jersey businessman Barry Halper owned the world's largest collection of baseball memorabilia. (2) Three packed rooms in his basement held countless baseball-related objects priceless to any lover of the game. (3) He owned, for instance, at least 1 million baseball cards, all in complete sets. (4) Nine hundred players' uniforms on a dry cleaner's conveyor belt hummed through a huge closet in Halper's basement. (5) Another prized example of Halper's passion was a life-size wax statue of Babe Ruth purchased from Madame Tussaud's famous wax museum in London. (6) Halper displayed a huge leather chair shaped like a baseball mitt, 3,000 autographed balls, a baseball pinball machine made in the 1930s, posters, bats, masks, trophies. (7) In 1998, he sold his collection; Major League Baseball bought many of Halper's treasures and donated them to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Choose the type of development the writer of this paragraph has used.

• A) illustration
• B) narration
• C) description
• D) process
• E) definition
• F) persuasion
• G) classification
• H) cause/effect

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Definitions:

Gross Profit Method

An accounting technique used to estimate the ending inventory and cost of goods sold by calculating the gross profit margin.

Destroyed Inventory

Goods that have been damaged or rendered unsellable, resulting in a loss for the business.

Retail Inventory Method

An accounting procedure for estimating the value of a store's merchandise by using a percentage of the retail prices.

Cost-to-Retail Ratio

The cost-to-retail ratio is a calculation used in inventory management to estimate the value of ending inventory at retail prices by considering the cost and retail value of goods available for sale.