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[109]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "Water never stays in one place for long. Heat from the sun lifts water from rivers, lakes and fields as invisible vapour. High in the sky this vapour cools and gathers into clouds, and when the droplets grow heavy they fall as rain or snow. Part of the rain flows back to rivers, part sinks into the ground to become groundwater, and part is taken up by plants. The same water may later rise again as vapour. This endless movement, called the water cycle, explains why a river can keep flowing even though it constantly loses water to the sea and to the sky." The word 'vapour' as used in the passage is closest in meaning to:

1.
water in its invisible gaseous form
2.
an opening through which water flows in
3.
moving young plants to the field where they will grow
4.
a curved path around a planet or star
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 1 : water in its invisible gaseous form

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सही उत्तर water in its invisible gaseous form है।

Key Points

In this context the word carries this sense; the other meanings do not fit the sentence.

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[109]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "Water never stays in one place for long. Heat from the sun lifts water from rivers, lakes and fields as invisible vapour. High in the sky this vapour cools and gathers into clouds, and when the droplets grow heavy they fall as rain or snow. Part of the rain flows back to rivers, part sinks into the ground to become groundwater, and part is taken up by plants. The same water may later rise again as vapour. This endless movement, called the water cycle, explains why a river can keep flowing even though it constantly loses water to the sea and to the sky." The word 'vapour' as used in the passage is closest in meaning to:

1.
water in its invisible gaseous form
2.
an opening through which water flows in
3.
moving young plants to the field where they will grow
4.
a curved path around a planet or star

Correct Answer: water in its invisible gaseous form

In this context the word carries this sense; the other meanings do not fit the sentence.

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