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 one of the following pairs of words in the passage describes enemies of the caterpillar ?
- ASerpentine and host
- BPredator and marauding
- CSerpentine and marauding
- DPredator and host
Explanation
The caterpillar's enemies are named as 'predators' ('picked off by predators') and 'marauding ants,' so 'predator and marauding' both describe enemies. 'Serpentine' describes the leaf miner's feeding trail, and 'host' describes the plant it lives in. Hence (b) is correct.