Questions

Identify a type of asexual reproduction which involves reproduction through parts of a plant such as roots, stem and leaves?

The Certificate of Deposit (CD) is a negotiable money market instrument and issued in the form of?

Which one of the following is not an assumption in the law of demand?

Which of the following is done at a Stock Exchange ?

Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad was completed by

What is the effective discount (in %) on two successive discounts of 20% and 10%?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

A picture paints a thousand words

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

When I think of my family's history on the land. I experience a pang of regret. Unlike much of the arid West, where the land has gone virtually unchanged for centuries, my place of origin, western Kansas, has been torn up by agriculture. The flat plains, excellent soil, and sparse but just adequate rainfall permitted farming; therefore farming prevailed, and a good 90% of the original sod prairie is gone. The consequence, in human terms, is that our relationship to our place has always felt primarily mercantile. We used the land and denied, or held at bay, its effect on us. Yet from my earliest childhood, when the most of the Kansas prairie was still intact, I 've known that the land also had a romantic quality. I've felt moved by the expanse of it , enthralled by size. I take pride in my identity as a plains daughter.

The argument in the paragraph is based primarily on :