The water resources of our country are very much underutilized. The main…
2025
The water resources of our country are very much underutilized. The main reason of this underutilization is the lack of capital and technology. A large portion of our water resources is wasted due to floods and unwise use of water for irrigation as well as domestic purposes. We can make full use of water resources by building dams on rivers and by adopting policies of spreading awareness among people not to waste water. In addition, effective implementation of rainwater harvesting system adds to water resources.
The country does not have enough funds to develop water resources.
Answer: D. Definitely true — This is a statement-based reasoning item that uses a four-level truth scale — Definitely True, Probably True, Probably False, and Definitely False — to judge…
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Definitely false
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Probably true
- C.
Probably false
- D.
Definitely true
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Correct answer: D
This is a statement-based reasoning item that uses a four-level truth scale — Definitely True, Probably True, Probably False, and Definitely False — to judge a given statement strictly against the content of the passage above, not against outside knowledge. A statement earns the 'Definitely' level when it is an explicit fact stated in the passage, or its direct paraphrase, or its exact opposite; it earns only the 'Probably' level when it goes beyond what is explicitly stated and rests on a reasonable inference instead.
The passage explicitly names 'the lack of capital and technology' as 'the main reason' for the underutilization of the country's water resources. 'Capital' here is a direct synonym for financial funds — money available for investment. The statement under evaluation, 'The country does not have enough funds to develop water resources,' is a direct paraphrase of this explicitly stated cause, substituting 'funds' for 'capital', without adding any claim the passage does not already make (it does not, for instance, claim funds are the ONLY missing factor — the passage also names technology).
Definitely false would require the statement to directly contradict a fact given in the passage; here it does the opposite — it restates one.
Probably true would apply only if the statement went beyond the passage's explicit wording into a reasonable-but-uncertain inference; here the link to 'capital' is a direct paraphrase, not an inference.
Probably false would apply if the statement ran against the general sense of the passage without a direct contradiction; that is not the case here, since the passage supports it outright.
Definitely true fits because the statement is a straightforward restatement, in different words, of a cause the passage states explicitly.
Because the statement is an explicit, directly-supported restatement of the passage's own stated cause, the correct classification is Definitely true.