Comprehension Passage

Directions: Six sentences are given, in which the first sentence is fixed; also one sentence is going to be filled with the appropriate word. Arrange the sentences to form a meaningful paragraph. Read the sentences carefully and answer the questions that follow.

A. Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Paeng, was a deadly tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage across the Philippines and later impacted Hong Kong and Macau.

B. Philippines' meteorological service PAGASA also followed JMA's lead and gave it the name Paeng.

C. The disturbance, initially designated as 93W, was eventually upgraded the following day to a tropical depression by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and re-designated as 26W.

D. That same day, it was upgraded again by JMA to tropical storm status, thus gaining the name Nalgae.

E. The twenty-second named tropical storm of the 2022 Pacific typhoon season, Nalgae originated from ______________.

F. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) however, had already considered the disturbance as a tropical depression a day prior to JTWC's.

A blank follows sentence E. Which of the following can fit in the blank grammatically and contextually, considering the final arrangement as a whole?

1
A severe tropical storm status on October 28.
2
An invest located east of the Philippines on October 26.
3
A landslide; however, no casualties were reported as the occupants evacuated before the landslide.
4
Over the West Philippine Sea the next day, and weakened below tropical storm status.
5
Prompting officials in Hong Kong and Macau to raise Signal No. 8 – the former for 17 hours – from November 1 to 2.

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