Question 1
To purify the water, the engineer followed a process: first filtering out dirt, then boiling to kill germs, and finally cooling it before testing the sample.
What does the word process most likely mean as used in the passage?
- a scientific guess
- a series of steps done in order
- the speed of boiling
- the tool used for filtering
Explanation: The sequence of actions—first, then, finally—shows process means an orderly set of steps.