IBPS RRB Office Assistant Mains 20 Feb 2021 Paper

Question Numbers: 143-147
Directions: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them. 
A. “Overall I’m not convinced the analysis is robust enough to draw the conclusions asserted,” Matthew Struebig, a conservation scientist at the University of Kent who was not involved in the research, tells The Scientist in an email.
B. Other experts say these findings should be interpreted with caution because the predictions are difficult to verify.
C. The authors of the paper estimate that bat diversity increased the most in an area that includes Myanmar, Laos, and southern China—where SARS-CoV-2 likely originated—thereby increasing the chances of a bat-borne disease spreading to humans.
D. A shift in the global distribution of the winged mammals due to climate change may be responsible for recent disease outbreaks, according to a study published January 26 in Science of The Total Environment. 
E. Most evidence scientists have generated since the start of the pandemic points to bats as the likely source of the COVID-19–causing coronavirus.