Question

Read the excerpt from The Hot Zone.G

ene Johnson, the Ajax of this biological war, paced back and forth across the loading dock among a pile of camouflaged military trunks—his stockpile of gear from Kitum Cave. The trunks contained field space suits, battery packs, rubber gloves, surgical scrub suits, syringes, needles, drugs, dissection tools, flashlights, one or two human surgery packs, blunt scissors, sample bags, plastic bottles, pickling preservatives, biohazard bags marked with red flowers, and hand-pumped garden sprayers for spraying bleach on space suits and objects that needed to be decontaminated.

The main purpose of the jargon in this excerpt is to

describe the setting in vivid and accurate detail

convince the reader that the text is nonfiction

make the text seem more genuine and authentic

prove that the writer is an expert on the subject

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

A - describe the settinng in vivid and accurate detail

Step-by-step explanation:

The author uses jargon in this text to be able to describe the setting and make it seem more vivid in the mind of the reader. While most people have not been involved in biological war, they have seen space suits, rubber gloves, and other items listed to they can imagine the scene.