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Sixty percent of rural India lives in utter poverty with no electricity. Rural India uses 180 million tonnes of fuel every year for cooking, creating indoor pollution and health hazards. The WHO estimates 1.5 million deaths per year are caused by pollution from chulha smoke. Making available locally grown clean and renewable cooking and lighting fuel can improve the quality of rural life. Liquid fuels are far superior to solid fuels for cooking because of their clean-burning and higher energy. Ethanol is one the best as it is an excellent substitute for kerosene and burns better with no unpleasant smell. Its burning power is almost as clean as that of LPG.
Ethanol can be produced from any sugary material and is presently produced the world over from sugarcane and corn. However, as the ethanol economy grows, there is a need to produce it from a crop that uses much less water than sugarcane and also produces food. Sorghum (Jowar) is one such crop whose stem is sweet like sugarcane. Its earhead produces grains that can be used for making bread. Its sweet stem has nearly the same amount of sugar and hence the juice can be fermented and used for ethanol production. The left-over stem after juice extraction, together with leaves is excellent fodder for animals. So from the same price of land one can get food, fuel, and fodder. Besides, sweet sorghum (Jowar) uses nearly fifty percent less water than sugarcane to produce the same amount of sugar. It is a four-month crop so farmers can grow two crops per year from the same piece of land. Also, the energy output ratio from sweet sorghum is very positive.
The nature of the paragraph is:
  • a)
    Analytical
  • b)
    Critical
  • c)
    Conceptual
  • d)
    Comprehensive
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"The WHO estimates 1.5 million deaths per year are caused by pollution from chulha smoke. Making available locally grown clean and renewable cooking and lighting fuel can improve the quality of rural life. Liquid fuels are far superior to solid fuels for cooking because of their clean-burning and higher energy."
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​"Ethanol can be produced from any sugary material and is presently produced the world over from sugarcane and corn. However, as the ethanol economy grows, there is a need to produce it from a crop that uses much less water than sugarcane and also produces food. Sorghum (Jowar) is one such crop whose stem is sweet like sugarcane. Its earhead produces grains which can be used for making bread."
​After a complete analysis of the above statements, it can be concluded that the nature of the paragraph is "analytical".
Hence, the correct option is (A).
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Direction: Read the following text and answer questions.Sixty percent of rural India lives in utter poverty with no electricity. Rural India uses 180 million tonnes of fuel every year for cooking, creating indoor pollution and health hazards. The WHO estimates 1.5 million deaths per year are caused by pollution from chulha smoke. Making available locally grown clean and renewable cooking and lighting fuel can improve the quality of rural life. Liquid fuels are far superior to solid fuels for cooking because of their clean-burning and higher energy. Ethanol is one the best as it is an excellent substitute for kerosene and burns better with no unpleasant smell. Its burning power is almost as clean as that of LPG.Ethanol can be produced from any sugary material and is presently produced the world over from sugarcane and corn. However, as the ethanol economy grows, there is a need to produce it from a crop that uses much less water than sugarcane and also produces food. Sorghum (Jowar) is one such crop whose stem is sweet like sugarcane. Its earhead produces grains that can be used for making bread. Its sweet stem has nearly the same amount of sugar and hence the juice can be fermented and used for ethanol production. The left-over stem after juice extraction, together with leaves is excellent fodder for animals. So from the same price of land one can get food, fuel, and fodder. Besides, sweet sorghum (Jowar) uses nearly fifty percent less water than sugarcane to produce the same amount of sugar. It is a four-month crop so farmers can grow two crops per year from the same piece of land. Also, the energy output ratio from sweet sorghum is very positive.The purpose of the paragraph is to bring out

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Direction: Read the following text and answer questions.Sixty percent of rural India lives in utter poverty with no electricity. Rural India uses 180 million tonnes of fuel every year for cooking, creating indoor pollution and health hazards. The WHO estimates 1.5 million deaths per year are caused by pollution from chulha smoke. Making available locally grown clean and renewable cooking and lighting fuel can improve the quality of rural life. Liquid fuels are far superior to solid fuels for cooking because of their clean-burning and higher energy. Ethanol is one the best as it is an excellent substitute for kerosene and burns better with no unpleasant smell. Its burning power is almost as clean as that of LPG.Ethanol can be produced from any sugary material and is presently produced the world over from sugarcane and corn. However, as the ethanol economy grows, there is a need to produce it from a crop that uses much less water than sugarcane and also produces food. 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