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.
The main idea of the passage is that caterpillars
- Alike to eat a lot
- Bhave to protect themselves while feeding
- Care good to eat
- Dare not good to eat
Explanation
Every example in the passage is a defense strategy adopted while feeding: silken shelters, sticky coatings, portable hideouts, and living inside leaves. The main idea is therefore that caterpillars must protect themselves while feeding. Option (a) misses the defense theme, while (c) and (d) misread 'appetizing body,' which is appetizing to predators, not to us. Hence (b) is correct.