[Mission 2023] Insta–DART (Daily Aptitude and Reasoning Test) 8 & 9 June 2023

Directions (1-5): The critical reasoning question is based on a short argument, a set of statements, or a plan of action. For each question, select the best answer of the choices given.

Passage 1

India is a home to a number of varied species of flora and fauna. Lots of measures are taken to conserve wildlife in India. Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting wild plant and animal species and their habitat. Wildlife plays an important role in balancing the environment and provides stability to different natural processes of nature. Government of India has taken several measures for conservation of wildlife.

Which among the following options shows the reason why we need to save wildlife?

Soil erosion is a naturally occurring process that affects all land forms. It refers to the wearing away of a fields topsoil by natural physical forces of water and wind. Topsoil which is high in organic matter, fertility and soil life which majorly contributes on the growing of crops. Soil erosion reduces cropland productivity and causes the pollution of watercourses, wetlands and lakes.

Which among the following options does not show the step taken to prevent this?

Till recently only cricket was emphasized in India. But now several other sports got attention and are widely spread. Globally, sports is one of the largest industries. In India, it is in the path to become one. As India has more number of young people, there is more potential to utilize sports talent in youth and to become one of the sports superpowers.

Future of sports in India faces a lot of challenges which are listed below. Select the one which doesn’t talk about the challenges faced by sports in the country.

Due to the increase of green house gases being trapped, average temperature is rising all over the world. Temperatures have been increasing in the last 30 years. As the earth warms up, heat waves are becoming more common in some places. Heat waves are dangerous and can cause illness. The warmer it gets, the more severe the impacts will be on the humans and the environment.

Given below are the few options, select the one which does not talk about the effect of increase of temperature on the humans.

Education, in today’s world, is highly paid for and there are still few sections of the country where parents cannot afford to send their children to school as they cannot pay their high fees. Therefore government schools were started such that it would help them get provided with formal education. But these schools are lacking in many ways such that it is not able to provide many things to its students and indirectly it is affecting them.

Given below are some options, select the one which is not about the bad things about these schools.

As we look to 2050, when we will need to feed two billion more people, the question of which diet is best hartaen on new urgency. The foods we choose to eat in the coming decades will have dramatic ramifications for the planet. Simply put, a diet that revolves around meat and dairy a way of eating that is on the rise throughout the developing world, will take a greater toll on the world’s resources than one that revolves around unrefined grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables.

What is the critical message conveyed by the above passage?

Historically, the biggest Challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, the demand-supply balance can be a critical issue for a closed economy, especially if it is a populous economy and its domestic agriculture is not growing sufficiently enough to ensure food supplies, on an enduring basis; it is not so much and not always, of a constraint for an open, and growing economy, which has adequate exchange surplus to buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, Supply-demand balance is always an inescapable prerequisite for warding off hunger and starvation. However, global availability of adequate supply does not necessarily mean that food would automatically move from countries of surplus to of deficit if the latter lack in purchasing power. The uneven distribution of hunger, starvation, under or malnourishment, etc., at the world-level, thus owes itself to the presence of empty-pocket hungry mouths, overwhelmingly confined to the underdeveloped economies. Inasmuch as ‘a two-square meal’ is of elemental significance to basic human existence, the issue of worldwide supply` of food has been gaining significance, in recent times, both because the quantum and the composition of demand has been undergoing big changes, and because, in recent years, the capabilities individual countries to generate uninterrupted chain of food supplies have come under strain. Food production, marketing and prices, especially price-affordability by the poor in the developing world, have become global issues that need global thinking and global solutions.

According to the above passage, which of, the following are the fundamental solutions for the world food security problem?

1. Setting up more agro-based industries
   2. Improving the price affordability by the poor
   3. Regulating the conditions of marketing
   4. Providing food subsidy to one and all

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According to the above passage, the biggest challenge to world agriculture is:

The issue of worldwide supply of food has gained importance mainly because of:

1. Overgrowth of the population worldwide
   2. Sharp decline in the area of food production
   3. Limitation in the capabilities for sustained supply of food

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According to the above passage, which of the following helps/help in reducing hunger and starvation in the developing economies?

1. Balancing demand and supply of food
   2. Increasing imports of food
   3. Increasing purchasing power of the poor
   4. Changing the food consumption patterns and practices

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