Which of the following does the ‘desert’ in the passage refer to?
Explanation:
Option 1 is correct because of the following extract, “They ignored the traditional ways of the Sauk Indians and used their sod-busting tool for planting wheat. Initially, the soil was generous and the farmers thrived. However, each year the soil lost more of its nurturing power. It was only thirty years after the Europeans arrived with their new technology that the land was depleted. Wheat farming became uneconomic and tens of thousands of farmers left Wisconsin seeking new land with sod to bust. It took the Europeans and their new technology just one generation to make their homeland into a desert.” Option 2 can be deciphered from the following extract, “The Sauk Indians who knew how to sustain themselves on the Sauk prairie land were banished to another kind of desert called a reservation.” The following extract, “It will be only one generation between the bereavement counsellor arrives and the community of mourners disappears. The counsellor’s new tool will cut through the social fabric, throwing aside kinship, care, neighbourly obligations and community ways of coming together and going on. Like John Deere’s plow, the tools of bereavement counselling will create a desert where a community once flourished” establishes option 3 also to be correct. Therefore all the 3 options are correct. Hence, the correct answer is option 4.
Help us build a Free and Comprehensive Preparation portal for various competitive exams by providing us your valuable feedback about Apti4All and how it can be improved.