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[5]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "For two years, the monsoon failed in Devgarh. Farmer Mohan watched his neighbours drill deeper wells, but he remembered his grandfather's advice: do not chase water downwards, catch it where it falls. He built a small farm pond, mulched his soil with dry leaves, and grew millets that needed less water. His first harvest was modest, and neighbours called his pond a waste of land. In the third year, when rain returned, his pond held water for months, his soil stayed moist, and his crop survived a dry spell that ruined others. Mohan's pond did not end drought, but it changed how his farm met drought." The phrase 'changed how his farm met drought' means —

1.
It changed the farm's location
2.
It made rain fall more often
3.
It stopped all dry spells
4.
It made the farm more resilient to dry spells, not drought-proof
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : It made the farm more resilient to dry spells, not drought-proof

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सही उत्तर It made the farm more resilient to dry spells, not drought-proof है।

Key Points

Resilience, not elimination of drought, is the point.

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[5]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "For two years, the monsoon failed in Devgarh. Farmer Mohan watched his neighbours drill deeper wells, but he remembered his grandfather's advice: do not chase water downwards, catch it where it falls. He built a small farm pond, mulched his soil with dry leaves, and grew millets that needed less water. His first harvest was modest, and neighbours called his pond a waste of land. In the third year, when rain returned, his pond held water for months, his soil stayed moist, and his crop survived a dry spell that ruined others. Mohan's pond did not end drought, but it changed how his farm met drought." The phrase 'changed how his farm met drought' means —

1.
It changed the farm's location
2.
It made rain fall more often
3.
It stopped all dry spells
4.
It made the farm more resilient to dry spells, not drought-proof

Correct Answer: It made the farm more resilient to dry spells, not drought-proof

Resilience, not elimination of drought, is the point.

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