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DIRECTIONS: The questions in this segment consists of two statements one labelled as ?Assertion A? and the other labelled as ?Reason R? You are to examine these two statements carefully and decide if the assertion A and reason R are individually true and if so, whether the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion. Select your answers to these items using codes given below. Assertion (A): In such areas where there is no vegetation the rain water flows quickly and has no effect on the top layer of soil of that area. Reason (R): When water level rises in rivers, ponds etc. Due to excessive rains it causes floods.

A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

C) A is true but R is false.

D) A is false but R is true.