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- English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide
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- Comprehension Ability
English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide · English · Comprehension Ability
The following text is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose...
The following text is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text:
Rapid urbanisation has converted fertile agriculture, forests and wetlands into concreted areas that are unable to retain rainwater or channel them into tributary streams that feed the Cauvery. Urbanisation demands concrete; concrete requires sand. In the districts sur-rounding the Cauvery, rampant sand mining has altered the natural topography of the river, eroding its banks, widening the river and altering water flow patterns. Despite warnings from environmentalist groups and farmer coalitions, and interventions by the court, this practice continues unchecked. It is no surprise that the wells that replenish farms across the basin are running dry-or that desperate farmers are reduced to abandoning agriculture and renting their farms to sand contractors for sand storage, thus becoming complicit in their own destruction.
Options
- AIn order to meet the huge demand for sand caused by rapid urbanisation, sand mining is taking place unrestrained in the districts surrounding the Cauvery, despite resistance from environmentalist groups and farmer coalitions with the result, the wells that replenish farms across the Cauvery basin are running dry.
- BRapid urbanisation has placed a huge demand on construction material like sand, and in order to meet this demand rampant sand mining is taking place in fertile regions surrounding the Cauvery basin and farmers in this region are renting out their farms to sand contractors as they find it more lucrative than agriculture.
- CTo meet the huge demand on sand due to rapid urbanisation, rampant sand mining is done in the districts surrounding the Cauvery, despite resistance from environmentalists and farmer coalitions, and hence the wet is that replenish farms are running dry, forcing farmers to abandon agriculture and rent their farms to sand contractors, thus conniving in their destruction.
- DRapid urbanisation in the areas surrounding the Cauvery basin has led to a huge demand for sand hence farmers in the region, in connivance with sand contractors, are involved in rampant sand mining, thus being a cause for their destruction.
Correct answer
C. To meet the huge demand on sand due to rapid urbanisation, rampant sand mining is done in the districts surrounding the Cauvery, despite resistance from environmentalists and farmer coalitions, and hence the wet is that replenish farms are running dry, forcing farmers to abandon agriculture and rent their farms to sand contractors, thus conniving in their destruction.
Step-by-step solution
The following are the main points of the paragraph: (1) Rampant sand mining is taking place in the districts surrounding the Cauvery despite resistance from environmentalists, etc. (2) With the wells running dry due to sand mining farmers are forced to rent their farms to sand contractors, thereby bringing their own destruction. Choice (a): This cannot be the best summary because it fails to mention the second point. Choice (b ): This option, which states that farmers find sand mining more lucrative, is a distortion of the original as this point is not mentioned in the paragraph. Choice (c): Correct. This option summarises the paragraph most appropriately. Choice (d): This option, which states that farmers connive with the sand contractors, is also a distortion.
Hence, option (c) best summarises the passage.