Rice, a versatile and inexpensive source of carbohydrate, is a critical component of diet worldwide. Climate change, causing extreme weather, poses a threat to sustained availability of rice. Scientists are working on developing Green Super Rice (GSR), which is resilient under extreme weather conditions yet gives higher yields sustainably. Which one of the following is the CORRECT logical inference based on the information given in the above passage?
Options:
(A) GSR is an alternative to regular rice, but it grows only in an extreme weather
(B) GSR may be used in future in response to adverse effects of climate change
(C) GSR grows in an extreme weather, but the quantity of produce is lesser than regular rice
(D) Regular rice will continue to provide good yields even in extreme weather
Official Answer Key:
B
Step-by-Step Solution & Explanation
• The passage states climate change threatens rice availability, and GSR is being developed to be resilient under extreme weather while still giving higher, sustainable yields.
• This directly supports the inference that GSR is a prospective future response to climate-change-driven threats — option (B).
• Distractor logic: (A) wrongly restricts GSR to growing only in extreme weather. (C) contradicts the passage (higher, not lesser, yields). (D) is unsupported — the passage frames regular rice's availability as threatened.
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