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:

Intellectual Property

Legal rights that result from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary, and artistic fields, including inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, and symbols, names, and images used in commerce.

Consumer Bill of Rights

A set of principles and guarantees that protect consumers' rights in the marketplace, including the right to safety, to be informed, to choose, and to be heard.

Caveat Emptor

A Latin phrase meaning "let the buyer beware," indicating that the responsibility for due diligence on a purchase lies with the consumer.

Caveat Emptor

A principle in commerce that places the responsibility on the buyer to perform due diligence before making a purchase.