Statements: 1. The life today is too fast, demanding and full of variety in…

Concept: In "cause and effect" statement reasoning, two statements are each taken as independently true, and the task is to judge how they relate using general knowledge and everyday experience (never by which statement is written first). Three relationships are possible: one statement describes a general condition or circumstance that plausibly produces what the other statement reports (cause → effect); the two statements describe unrelated phenomena with no real-world link (independent causes); or both statements are separate downstream consequences of some other, unstated factor (effects of independent causes).

Application to this item:

• Statement I describes a broad, general condition: everyday life today is fast-paced, demanding, and varied, which produces stress.

• Statement II reports a specific, measurable outcome: teenage suicide cases are rising.

• Sustained everyday stress of the kind described in Statement I is a well-documented real-world driver of psychological distress, and in vulnerable groups such as teenagers this can escalate to extreme, harmful outcomes including suicide. So the general condition in Statement I plausibly produces the specific outcome reported in Statement II — a direct cause-to-effect pairing.

Cross-check against the other options:

• Reversing the direction (treating the rising suicide count as the cause of life becoming fast-paced and demanding) does not hold up: a demographic statistic about suicide cases has no mechanism by which it could make everyday life across society faster, more demanding, or more varied.

• Treating the two statements as independent, unconnected causes ignores the well-recognized real-world link between sustained everyday stress and extreme psychological outcomes — that connection is exactly why these two everyday observations are commonly paired in cause-and-effect reasoning.

• Calling both statements effects of some other, unstated cause requires inventing a third factor that neither statement mentions; the natural reading is a direct relationship between what one statement describes and what the other reports, not two side-effects of something else.

Result: Statement I is the cause and Statement II is its effect.