Question

read the excerpt from the dark game. on several occasions room 40 received an unexpected but welcome gift when a german codebook was recovered after a sea battle and presented to the british code breakers. one such gift was a codebook from the german ship magdeburg, a light cruiser that ran aground on an island off of finland. when russian ships quickly bore down on the cruiser, the captain of the stranded ship immediately did what all naval officers were taught to do: he ordered his signalman to bring him the ship’s codebook so he could throw the book, wrapped in lead covers, into the sea. but before the signalman could deliver the book to his captain, he was killed by russian guns. when the russians recovered his body, the sailor was still clutching the codebook in his arms. which type of structure is used in the text? problem and solution cause and effect chronological comparison and contrast

Explanation:

The text describes events in the order they occurred: the German ship ran aground, Russian ships approached, the captain ordered the codebook to be thrown overboard, the signalman was killed before he could do so, and the Russians recovered the codebook with the signalman's body. This follows a chronological (time - order) structure. A problem - solution structure would present a problem and then a way to solve it, which is not done here. A cause - effect structure focuses on why something happened and its result, but here it's more about the sequence of events. A comparison - contrast structure would highlight similarities and differences between things, which is not present.

Answer:

chronological