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

Passage: The Western Ghats, a mountain chain along India's west coast, are one of the world's richest reservoirs of life found nowhere else. Shola forests, evergreen valleys and grasslands shelter elephants, lion-tailed macaques, hornbills and thousands of plant species that grow only in these hills. The Ghats are also a water tower: they catch the monsoon, feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream, and hold soil on steep slopes. Yet roads, plantations, mining and expanding towns cut the forests into fragments, so that animals cannot move between patches and streams run muddy. Protecting the Ghats is not only about saving rare species; it is about safeguarding the water, climate and soil on which millions of people depend.

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.
Keepers cleaned the great lens, trimmed the wick and watched through the night that the lamp never went out.
4.
The Western Ghats catch the monsoon and feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : The Western Ghats catch the monsoon and feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream.

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सही उत्तर The Western Ghats catch the monsoon and feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream. है।

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The passage states: The Western Ghats catch the monsoon and feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream.

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

Passage: The Western Ghats, a mountain chain along India's west coast, are one of the world's richest reservoirs of life found nowhere else. Shola forests, evergreen valleys and grasslands shelter elephants, lion-tailed macaques, hornbills and thousands of plant species that grow only in these hills. The Ghats are also a water tower: they catch the monsoon, feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream, and hold soil on steep slopes. Yet roads, plantations, mining and expanding towns cut the forests into fragments, so that animals cannot move between patches and streams run muddy. Protecting the Ghats is not only about saving rare species; it is about safeguarding the water, climate and soil on which millions of people depend.

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.
Keepers cleaned the great lens, trimmed the wick and watched through the night that the lamp never went out.
4.
The Western Ghats catch the monsoon and feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream.

Correct Answer: The Western Ghats catch the monsoon and feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream.

The passage states: The Western Ghats catch the monsoon and feed rivers that water farms and cities downstream.

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