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  1. Equipped with survival lessons from the December 2015 floods and helped by an__________flow of disaster warning messages, the city and neighbouring districts held together through several hours of fierce winds.
    1) radiate
    2) dazzle
    3) efficient
    4) helpless
    5) impotent
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : efficient 

  2. While economic damage was__________, cautionary advice put out on social platforms urging people to stay safe helped reduce the number of casualties.
    1) avoidable
    2) escapable
    3) preventable
    4) fortuitous
    5) inevitable
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation :inevitable

  3. While economic damage was inevitable, cautionary advice put out on social platforms__________ people to stay safe helped reduce the number of casualties.
    1) urging
    2) rigid
    3) unforceful
    4) weak
    5)  wimpy
    Answer – 1) 
    Explanation : urging

  4. Remarkably, the community also responded with_________, creating online groups and sharing messages offering help and advice.
    1) reluctance
    2) indifference
    3) alacrity
    4) apathy
    5) aversion
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : alacrity

  5. It is of course possible to learn even more by going back to citizens and_________data on their experience using online tools.
    1) assertion
    2) harnessing
    3) affirmation
    4) allegation
    5) application
    Answer – 2) 
    Explanation : harnessing

  6. Tropical storms are an annual affair, with the more__________eastern coast taking a pummelling from 92 severe cyclones out of a total of 262 between 1891 and 1990, and several more in the years since.
    1) sterling
    2) certain
    3) careful
    4) vulnerable
    5) candid
    Answer – 4) 
    Explanation : vulnerable

  7. Such weather events are a part of the climate system, and their impact in the form of economic losses could well be greater going forward, as development creates more_________in coastal cities.
    1) candid
    2) certain
    3) assets
    4) liability
    5) disadvantage
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : assets 

  8. It is vital, therefore, that the learnings from each event are shared nationally, and the capacity of officials and communities to manage__________built continuously.
    1) abidance
    2) disasters
    3) blessing
    4) prosperity
    5) wonder
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : disasters

  9. Vardah also demonstrated that in the time of social media and the Internet, speedy official and community messages can__________the outcome of a catastrophe.
    1) influence
    2) impotence
    3) incapacity
    4) weakness
    5) inferiority
    Answer – 1) 
    Explanation : influence

  10. The storm hobbled the city’s infrastructure by nightfall, downing power and communication cables, blocking roads, __________rail and air transport, and spreading a carpet of darkness.
    1) disrupting
    2) arranging
    3) avoiding
    4) criticizing
    5) organizing
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : disrupting





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