Comprehension Passage

Direction: Some words have been left out in the following passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives:

In 1949, then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had [1] __________  American architect-planner Albert Mayer and Polish architect Matthew Nowicki to plan a modern city. Mayer and Nowicki envisioned superblocks with green spaces, while being sensitive to the natural [2] __________  of the land and scope for drainage and water. However, after Nowicki’s death in a plane crash in 1950, Swiss-French architect-planner Le Corbusier was commissioned for the project. While Corbusier stayed close to their early plans, he turned their curving road network into a rectangular grid, with straight lines that would [3] __________  the automobile. However, he was keen on [4] __________  to the “Garden City” idea, where high-rise buildings were unacceptable in commercial areas. Corbusier’s plan would have a heart and a head, where the “head” would contain the Capital Complex and the “heart” the commercial area. The “hands” would host [5] __________  spaces and academic institutions.

Choose the most appropriate option for blank 5.

1
recreate
2
recreation
3
recreating
4
recreational

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