Question

1) Which organizational pattern is used in this passage?

2) Why did you choose this as the most likely organizational pattern?
3) Summarize the passage using the text structure you decided on as a the basis for your summary.

Read the passage below about an "escaped" cobra. and answer the following questions:

(1) The case of the missing venomous snake in the Bronx Zoo has yielded much interest, many press inquiries and even a fake Twitter feed or two. (2) What it has not yielded is the snake, a 20-inch female Egyptian cobra born a few months ago.

(3) Zoo officials said they were confident that the snake was somewhere inside the reptile house, which was closed immediately after the snake went missing on Friday.

(4) “The holding areas of the reptile house are extremely complex environments with pumps, motors and other mechanical systems,” Mr. Breheny said. (5) “In this complex environment, she will likely remain in hiding and not move until she feels completely secure. (6) As her comfort level rises, she will begin to move around the building to seek food and water.”

Answer 1

i say the organization pattern is problem and solution as the problem it that cobra has escaped and the solution is that zoo keepers have to wait until the cobra is comfortable to move because in the passage Mr. Breheny states that the cobra is near mechanical systems and would not come out until its comfortable, the zoo keepers have to wait.

summery

in a zoo in the bronx a a 20-inch female Egyptian cobra had escaped but it is nowhere to be found, which sparked interest in the people and the news. But the zoo keeper of the zoo that it escaped from said the she could be near the reptile section where there is machinery, so the zoo keepers said they have to wait until she comes out to capture her.