In this section, you have short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
Passage:
To eat and not be eaten - that’s the imperative of a caterpillar’s existence. The leaf roller reduces its risks of being picked off by predators by silking together a temporary shelter in which to feed and rest. Adopting a different line of defense, the jelly slug extrudes a sticky translucent coating that may foul the mouth-parts of marauding ants. For its part, the aquatic larva, by its watery element, fashions a portable hideout from fragments of aquatic leaves. Cutting a serpentine trail as it feeds on tender young leaves, the minute citrus leaf miner spends its entire larval life inside its host plant, thus keeping its appetizing body safely under wraps.
Which varieties of caterpillars ‘build’ shelters to protect themselves ?
- ALeaf roller and aquatic larva
- BLeaf roller and jelly slug
- CJelly slug and aquatic larva
- DJelly slug and citrus leaf miner
Explanation
The leaf roller 'silks together a temporary shelter,' and the aquatic larva 'fashions a portable hideout' from leaf fragments, so both build shelters. The jelly slug merely extrudes a sticky coating, and the citrus leaf miner lives inside its host leaf without building anything. Hence (a) is correct.