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As the habitat and food is shrinking, so are the numbers of house sparrows. The new building designs and landscaped gardens are not at all sparrow friendly. ………………………………………………………. Due to change in lifestyle of people, they are not feeding leftover chapattis or grains to sparrows, which was a daily routine once upon a time and this was a source of food for sparrows.

Q: Answer-As the habitat and food is shrinking, so are the numbers of house sparrows. The new building designs...

Since we talked about the building designs being less sparrow friendly in the previous sentence, the next sentence talks about how they are not perfect for a sparrow to make them its habitat.

(136-140): In each of these questions, a paragraph is given that has blank in it. Five sentences (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) are suggested. Out of these, only one fits the blank in the context of the paragraph. Pick that sentence as the answer.

A The sparrows play an important role as insect controllers as they eat a phenomenal numbers of insects.

B Seeds are the mainstay of their diet, but sparrows also eat some foliage, fruit and insects.

C The modern houses do not have cavities which are important for sparrows to make nests.

D A song sparrow sings about 10 different tunes.

E None of these

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