The Paragraph Below Is Developed by a Specific Mode or Pattern

question 21

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.
Transitional words or phrases are used in which sentences?

• A) (3), (5)
• B) (1), (2), (5)
• C) (4), (5)

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Definitions:

Mirror Neurons

Neurons that fire when an individual performs an action or when they observe someone else performing the same action, implicated in empathy and learning by imitation.

Cognitive Maps

Mental representations of physical spaces or environments, helping individuals navigate and understand spatial relationships.

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others and the outcomes of those behaviors.

Operant Conditioning

A learning technique where the dynamism of a behavior is regulated by the offering of incentives or the implementation of correctives.