In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
S1: All living things affect the living and non-living things around them.
S6: This interdependability needs to be understood when we, humans consume much more than required and abuse nature.
P: This can also affect the population of fox, if foxes depend on rabbits for food.
Q: For example, earthworms make burrows and worm casts.
R: This act of earthworms affects the soil, and therefore the plants growing in it.
S: Rabbit's fleas carry the virus which causes myxomatosis, so they can affect the size of the rabbit population.
The correct sequence should be
- ARSQP
- BPSRQ
- CQRSP
- DSQRP
Explanation
S1 (living things affect their surroundings) is illustrated first by Q's earthworm example, and R ('This act of earthworms affects the soil') explicitly continues it — the Q→R link is marked by 'this act'. S then introduces a second chain (rabbit's fleas carry the myxomatosis virus, affecting rabbit numbers), and P ('This can also affect the population of fox, if foxes depend on rabbits') extends that chain one link further — the S→P link is marked by 'also'. S6 generalises both examples into interdependence. Hence (C) QRSP is correct.