IBPS Clerk Mains 2017 Paper

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DIRECTIONS (Qs. 131-135): In the passage given below there are blanks which are to be filled with the options given below. Find out the appropriate word in each case which can most suitably complete the sentence without altering the meaning of the statement.
The (131) ___________ of the deadly Nipah virus around Kozhikode, Kerala, is a test of India's (132) __________to respond to public health emergencies. In 2018, the World Health Organization listed Nipah as one of the 10 priority pathogens(133) _______ urgent research, given its ability to (134)___________ lethal outbreaks and the lack of drugs available against it. As an RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus, Nipah has an (135)___________ rate of mutation - that is, it can easily adapt to spread more efficiently among humans than it does now. Such an adaptation would result in a truly dangerous microbe.
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