Short holidays of 2-3 days are becoming popular:

This MCQ tests whether students can identify a specific causal relationship stated in the passage about why short holidays of 2-3 days are gaining popularity. Paragraph 2 explicitly states that people take short breaks of 2-3 nights to 'relax and destress' from the pressures of daily life, making option (C) the correct answer. Each wrong option represents a plausible but unsupported reason. Option (A) about limited holidays sounds logical in real life - people with fewer leave days might prefer shorter trips - but this reasoning is never mentioned in the passage. Option (B) about increased budgets introduces a financial dimension entirely absent from the text. Option (D) about visiting historical places confuses the purpose of short breaks (stress relief) with the purpose of some types of tourism discussed elsewhere. The examiner's strategy here is to test whether students answer from the passage rather than from common sense or personal experience. Even if a student personally knows someone who takes short holidays because of limited leave, the passage-based answer must prevail. For exam strategy, students should locate the exact sentence about 2-3 day breaks, identify the stated reason, and match it to the options. This question should take under a minute. Students can also use elimination: if options A, B, and D have no textual evidence, C must be correct by default.