Multiple choice

Which of the following can be concluded from the passage?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The ground was full of seeds that cannot rise into seedlings: they rob one another of air, light and water, the strongest robber winning the day and extinguishing his competitors. Year after year, the wild animals with which man never interferes are, on the average, neither more nor less numerous than they were; and yet we know that the annual produce of every pair is from one to perhaps a million young; so that it is mathematically certain that, on the average, as many are killed by natural causes as are born every year, and only those escape which happen to be a little better fitted to resist destruction than those that die. The individuals of a species are like crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

  1. Man does not kill wild animals.

  2. More wild animals are born every year than are killed naturally.

  3. Most of the wild animals survive destruction.

  4. Wild animals do not disturb man.
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Explanation

The passage says that man does not interfere with wild animals and as many wild animals are born as are destroyed by natural causes. This means that wild animals are destroyed only by natural calamities and not by human action.

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