When I walked to the plate with the bases loaded, I knew the entire team was counting on me to come through. I took the first pi
tch for a called strike, then fouled off the next five pitches. With the count 0-2, I took a couple pitches well out of the strike zone, evening the count. The 2-2 pitch was a breaking ball, and I crushed it hard into the gap in left-center field, scoring two runs and winning the game for us! If the writer wished to add a sentence between the first and second sentence of the passage in order to clarify the sequence and build tension, which of these choices would be most appropriate?
A) I knew the pitcher, but not very well.
B) This was my favorite game of all time.
C) My father later told me how proud he felt of me at this moment.
D) I could hear the fans roaring, and I knew everyone in the dugout sat with their rally caps in place and their fingers crossed.
D) I could hear the fans roaring, and I knew everyone in the dugout sat with their rally caps in place and their fingers crossed.
Explanation:
The correct statement illustrates the scene between sentences one and two, by adding background information about what is going on at the moment. In that respect, the player goes through at a crucial time in the game and is having everybody's attention.
Signal words are referred to as the words that provide hints on what is expected to happen while one is reading.
The signal word that points to the problem in the passage is "if". From the text, we can see that Hughes knew that the meat that comes from a single cow could not make many people sick buy that the real danger was "if" the disease was passed to other cows.
