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[113]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: Soil looks like mere dirt, yet a handful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on earth: bacteria, fungi, worms and tiny insects that break down dead matter, hold water and release nutrients to roots. When a farmer grows the same crop year after year and floods the field with chemical fertiliser, this living community weakens, the soil hardens, and yields that once rose begin to fall. Sustainable farming works with the soil rather than against it: rotating crops, adding compost, keeping the ground covered and reducing deep ploughing. These practices are slower and less spectacular than a new chemical, but they rebuild the very foundation on which every harvest depends. Good farming, in the end, is good soil-keeping. Which of the following can be most reasonably inferred from the passage?

1.
Soil and sustainable farming has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices.
2.
The passage suggests the subject is unimportant and deserves no further attention.
3.
The passage proves that every traditional practice connected with the subject should be abandoned.
4.
The passage claims that only experts, never ordinary people, can understand the subject.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 1 : Soil and sustainable farming has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices.

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सही उत्तर Soil and sustainable farming has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices. है।

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The passage's evidence and emphasis support a lasting, wider significance, not dismissal or exclusivity.

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[113]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: Soil looks like mere dirt, yet a handful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on earth: bacteria, fungi, worms and tiny insects that break down dead matter, hold water and release nutrients to roots. When a farmer grows the same crop year after year and floods the field with chemical fertiliser, this living community weakens, the soil hardens, and yields that once rose begin to fall. Sustainable farming works with the soil rather than against it: rotating crops, adding compost, keeping the ground covered and reducing deep ploughing. These practices are slower and less spectacular than a new chemical, but they rebuild the very foundation on which every harvest depends. Good farming, in the end, is good soil-keeping. Which of the following can be most reasonably inferred from the passage?

1.
Soil and sustainable farming has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices.
2.
The passage suggests the subject is unimportant and deserves no further attention.
3.
The passage proves that every traditional practice connected with the subject should be abandoned.
4.
The passage claims that only experts, never ordinary people, can understand the subject.

Correct Answer: Soil and sustainable farming has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices.

The passage's evidence and emphasis support a lasting, wider significance, not dismissal or exclusivity.

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