RahulHGGmat wrote:
Hi Expert,
I am still unable to understand why option A is not an answer to question no 1. As per my understanding, it cannot be inferred from the passage at all.
Request you to enlighten your expertise on this.
thanks for your PM. I don't have much else to add than my answer. But I'll give it one more shot.
To start the question is a LEAST support question. Which means we are looking for 4 answer choices which are supported in the passage. Its actually picking out 4 and marking the 'odd' one out as your answer.
Next we come to this part in the passage -
"Since the arrival of Darwin, blown by the wind and carried by the sea, the island group has been prized as a seedbed and mecca of genetic diversity, a natural laboratory of species adaptation and evolution."The modifier is underlined.
What is the modifier modifying? the arrival of Darwin.
In simpler English this means - Darwin came to the Galapagos by a big ship. The ship "sailed" through the ocean to the Galapagos. A poet would write this journey as - blown by the wind and carried by the sea. The author might have a poetic inclination but that's not the point haha. Ok so we hold on to this that Darwin came via a ship which was blown by the wind and carried by the sea.
Now let us come to this part of the passage -
"Because of the distance of some 600 miles from the mainland, the original arrival of species, some by means of floating on a raft of algae, others by means of an against-all-odds long-distance swim, may seem a form of travail and triumph for some species."See the underlined portion describes some species arrived by floating on a raft of algae. It can be reasonably inferred that the raft was blown by the wind and carried by the sea.
So A is supported.