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

Passage: In many villages, water arrives not from a tap that never fails but from rain that must be caught, stored and shared wisely. Old wisdom understood this: ponds were desilted before the monsoon, wells were deepened in summer, and rooftop rain was guided into tanks rather than allowed to run into drains. Modern pipes have helped, but they have also encouraged waste, because water that comes from far away feels free and endless. It is neither. Groundwater levels fall when extraction exceeds recharge, and a village that ignores its ponds soon depends entirely on tankers. Conservation is therefore not a slogan but a daily discipline: repair a leak, harvest the rain, protect the catchment, and treat every litre as borrowed from the future.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

1.
Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.
2.
Cooled lava breaks down over centuries into rich, fertile soil that farmers prize.
3.
Old village practice included desilting ponds before the monsoon and guiding rooftop rain into tanks.
4.
Keepers cleaned the great lens, trimmed the wick and watched through the night that the lamp never went out.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 3 : Old village practice included desilting ponds before the monsoon and guiding rooftop rain into tanks.

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सही उत्तर Old village practice included desilting ponds before the monsoon and guiding rooftop rain into tanks. है।

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The passage states: Old village practice included desilting ponds before the monsoon and guiding rooftop rain into tanks.

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

Passage: In many villages, water arrives not from a tap that never fails but from rain that must be caught, stored and shared wisely. Old wisdom understood this: ponds were desilted before the monsoon, wells were deepened in summer, and rooftop rain was guided into tanks rather than allowed to run into drains. Modern pipes have helped, but they have also encouraged waste, because water that comes from far away feels free and endless. It is neither. Groundwater levels fall when extraction exceeds recharge, and a village that ignores its ponds soon depends entirely on tankers. Conservation is therefore not a slogan but a daily discipline: repair a leak, harvest the rain, protect the catchment, and treat every litre as borrowed from the future.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

1.
Early maps sometimes filled unknown lands with pictures of monsters and guessed at coastlines.
2.
Cooled lava breaks down over centuries into rich, fertile soil that farmers prize.
3.
Old village practice included desilting ponds before the monsoon and guiding rooftop rain into tanks.
4.
Keepers cleaned the great lens, trimmed the wick and watched through the night that the lamp never went out.

Correct Answer: Old village practice included desilting ponds before the monsoon and guiding rooftop rain into tanks.

The passage states: Old village practice included desilting ponds before the monsoon and guiding rooftop rain into tanks.

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