Rearrange the following sentences to form a meaningful paragraph:
(A) For years her neighbours laughed at her and called the pots a museum of useless grain.
(B) Then came three years of poor rain, and the hybrid crops, which needed plenty of water, failed one after another.
(C) Rukmini, a farmer in her sixties, was one of the few who kept doing it, storing old varieties of millet and rice in clay pots.
(D) The same neighbours now queue outside her house before every sowing season, asking to borrow a handful of her seeds.
(E) When hybrid seeds came to our district, most farmers stopped saving seeds from their own harvest.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (E), (C), (A), (B), (D)
Rearranged Parts:
(E) When hybrid seeds came to our district, most farmers stopped saving seeds from their own harvest.
(C) Rukmini, a farmer in her sixties, was one of the few who kept doing it, storing old varieties of millet and rice in clay pots.
(A) For years her neighbours laughed at her and called the pots a museum of useless grain.
(B) Then came three years of poor rain, and the hybrid crops, which needed plenty of water, failed one after another.
(D) The same neighbours now queue outside her house before every sowing season, asking to borrow a handful of her seeds.
Complete paragraph: When hybrid seeds came to our district, most farmers stopped saving seeds from their own harvest. Rukmini, a farmer in her sixties, was one of the few who kept doing it, storing old varieties of millet and rice in clay pots. For years her neighbours laughed at her and called the pots a museum of useless grain. Then came three years of poor rain, and the hybrid crops, which needed plenty of water, failed one after another. The same neighbours now queue outside her house before every sowing season, asking to borrow a handful of her seeds.