Please edit option A, because a comma is required after "resources". Though Daagh who posted this question recognises that there is a typo he never bothered to correct it.
Estimated
to be about 25 million years old and ranking as the largest in the world in terms of volume, Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia can hold about 5,700 cu.mi of water, roughly 20 percent of the planet’s fresh water resources and harbours more than 2,000 unique species of flora and fauna.
(A) to be about 25 million years old and ranking as the largest in the world in terms of volume, Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia can hold about 5,700 cu.mi of water, roughly 20 percent of the planet’s fresh water resources and harbours
(B) to be about 25 million years old and ranking as the largest in the world in terms of volume, Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia holding about 5,700 cu.mi of water, roughly 20 percent of the planet’s fresh water resources and harbour
(C) to be about 25 million years old and ranking as the largest in the world in terms of volume, Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia can hold about 5,700 cu.mi of water, roughly 20 percent of the planet’s fresh water resources and can harbour
(D) as about 25 million years old and ranking as the largest in the world in terms of volume, Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia can hold about 5,700 cu.mi of water, roughly 20 percent of the planet’s fresh water resources while harbouring
(E) at about 25 million years old and ranking as the largest in the world in terms of volume, Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia can hold about 5,700 cu.mi of water, roughly 20 percent of the planet’s fresh water resources to harbour
Verbal Diagnostic Test No : 6 – SC Q No:5
OA: A
OE:
A: Correct Choice. Estimated to be is correct idiom. Can harbour makes no meaning. It should be simply harbours, a compound verb for the subject the lake.
B: Sentence is a fragment
C: Can harbour makes no meaning
D: Estimated as is wrong idiom
E: estimated at is wrong idiom can hold.... to harbour is altered intent.