Question

Read the following passage carefully and Answer the question that follows.
The August wildfire that roared through the town of Lahaina in Hawaii burned so hot that some of the dead were effectively cremated, their bones combusting to unidentifiable ash. Other bodies may have been lost in the Pacific Ocean, into which many of those fleeing the inferno were forced to plunge. As of Sept. 22, 97 people have been confirmed dead, but the Maui Police Department still lists 22 people as missing. That’s a common pattern in the aftermath of disasters. In Morocco, families are still desperately searching for hundreds of loved ones after a devastating earthquake, while thousands in Libya are missing after two dams collapsed in a heavy rainstorm. Climate change has supercharged the kind of deadly weather that creates disappearances. In March, over 500 Malawians were presumed dead after being buried in mudslides unleashed by the exceptionally intense Cyclone Freddy. For families of the missing, disappearance is a special kind of indefinite hell. In a wealthy country like the United States, victims of disaster tend to be quickly tallied and searched for. But poorer nations, which are already more vulnerable to the damage wrought by climate change, often don’t have the resources to follow through. We need to fund measures for these countries that both prevent disappearances through emergency preparedness and also resolve them by promptly identifying bodies.

• A. To prove that all disasters have a common pattern.
• B. To show how climate change has supercharged deadly weather.
• C. To show how the US has better disaster prevention policies than other nations.
• D. To urge for support to poorer nations in developing better disaster preparedness and disaster management policies
• E. To show the drawbacks of being a poorer nation in an inequitable world.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Option A is incorrect- the author mentions the common pattern in the context of the aftermath of a disaster not the pattern of disasters in general.
Option B is not the main point the author is trying to make.
Option C is incorrect as it misrepresents the author’s point. The author mentions the US as an example of a wealthy which can help trace missing people and identify bodies promptly
Option D is correct- refer to the following lines -But poorer nations, which are already more vulnerable to the damage wrought by climate change, often don’t have the resources to follow through. We need to fund measures for these countries that both prevent disappearances through emergency preparedness and also resolve them by promptly identifying bodies.
The main point of the author is in these lines.

Hence option D is the correct answer.