A An area drained by a river and its tributaries is called a drainage basin B The drainage system is...........

English Language (IBPS CL) Cloze test

Direction: Five statements labelled A, B, C, 1 and 2 are given below. Among them, statements A, B and C are in the correct order. Identify the positions of 1 and 2 so as to make a logically coherent paragraph.

A) An area drained by a river and its tributaries is called a drainage basin.

B) The drainage system is related to a number of factors like slope of land, geological structure, amount and velocity of water.

C) A river through its drainage system performs several tasks.

1) The drainage system refers to the system of flow of surface water mainly through rivers.

2) These are excess water removal from a particular area, transportation of sediments from one place to other, providing natural source for irrigation and maintaining the water table of a region.

ABC21

12ABC

2ABC1

ABC12

1ABC2

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Explanation:

The passage is about river drainage system. Sentence 1 should act as the introductory sentence as it defines what is a ‘drainage system’ while statement 2 should act as the concluding sentence as it points out the several tasks performed by the drainage system as mentioned in statement C.
Hence, the correct sequence is 1ABC2 and option E is the correct answer.