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:

Political Views

The opinions or beliefs of an individual regarding politics, including policies, ideologies, and the governance of a society.

Interaction

The process by which various factors or entities act upon or with each other to produce a response or change.

Gene Replication

The process by which a cell duplicates its DNA, allowing for genetic information to be passed from one generation to the next.

Molecular Mechanisms

The specific interactions and processes occurring at a molecular level that result in biological functions and behaviors.