Question
[109]. Passage: Greening a desert by planting trees sounds hopeful, but indiscriminate planting can harm fragile dryland ecology. Native grasses and shrubs, adapted to scarce rain, stabilise soil without draining scarce groundwater, while thirsty exotic trees may lower water tables and crowd out local species. Successful restoration therefore studies rainfall, soil and grazing pressure, protects natural regeneration, and plants only where water budgets allow. Green cover is a means to resilient livelihoods, not an end measured merely by counting saplings in a photograph. Which inference can be drawn from the passage?
Option 3 : The passage implies that counting saplings alone is a misleading measure of restoration.
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर The passage implies that counting saplings alone is a misleading measure of restoration. है।
This inference follows logically from the passage's argument, while the distractors contradict it.
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[109]. Passage: Greening a desert by planting trees sounds hopeful, but indiscriminate planting can harm fragile dryland ecology. Native grasses and shrubs, adapted to scarce rain, stabilise soil without draining scarce groundwater, while thirsty exotic trees may lower water tables and crowd out local species. Successful restoration therefore studies rainfall, soil and grazing pressure, protects natural regeneration, and plants only where water budgets allow. Green cover is a means to resilient livelihoods, not an end measured merely by counting saplings in a photograph. Which inference can be drawn from the passage?
Correct Answer: The passage implies that counting saplings alone is a misleading measure of restoration.
This inference follows logically from the passage's argument, while the distractors contradict it.