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[122]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "Life in a desert looks impossible, yet plants and animals there survive by wasting nothing. Cactus stores water in its thick stem, opens its pores only at night and grows spines instead of broad leaves that would lose moisture. Desert foxes hunt at night and rest in cool burrows by day, while some frogs sleep buried in sand for months until rain wakes them. People too adapt: they wear loose white clothes, build thick-walled houses and travel in the early morning. The desert does not defeat life; it forces every living thing to solve the same problem — how to keep water — in a different way." What is the main idea of the passage?

1.
Desert plants, animals and people all survive by adapting to conserve water in extreme heat and dryness.
2.
A village pond shared by the whole community recovers when people stop polluting it and take steady, collective responsibility.
3.
The water cycle is the endless movement of water between earth and sky through evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
4.
Folk songs are a living record of work, celebration and practical knowledge, and they disappear unless deliberately recorded.
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Option 1 : Desert plants, animals and people all survive by adapting to conserve water in extreme heat and dryness.

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सही उत्तर Desert plants, animals and people all survive by adapting to conserve water in extreme heat and dryness. है।

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The passage as a whole supports this idea; the other options are narrow, opposite or absent from the passage.

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[122]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "Life in a desert looks impossible, yet plants and animals there survive by wasting nothing. Cactus stores water in its thick stem, opens its pores only at night and grows spines instead of broad leaves that would lose moisture. Desert foxes hunt at night and rest in cool burrows by day, while some frogs sleep buried in sand for months until rain wakes them. People too adapt: they wear loose white clothes, build thick-walled houses and travel in the early morning. The desert does not defeat life; it forces every living thing to solve the same problem — how to keep water — in a different way." What is the main idea of the passage?

1.
Desert plants, animals and people all survive by adapting to conserve water in extreme heat and dryness.
2.
A village pond shared by the whole community recovers when people stop polluting it and take steady, collective responsibility.
3.
The water cycle is the endless movement of water between earth and sky through evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
4.
Folk songs are a living record of work, celebration and practical knowledge, and they disappear unless deliberately recorded.

Correct Answer: Desert plants, animals and people all survive by adapting to conserve water in extreme heat and dryness.

The passage as a whole supports this idea; the other options are narrow, opposite or absent from the passage.

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