Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blanks out of the four alternatives.

Storms are getting stronger elsewhere too. Hurricane Otis recently (1)________ the Mexican city of Acapulco, for instance. Otis developed from a regular storm into a (2)_________ hurricane in record time, and was the first time in history that a hurricane in the Eastern Pacific made landfall and sustained itself as a the strongest “Category 5” storm. Tropical Cyclone Tej (3)_________ the Arabian Peninsula the week before with 480mm of rainfall in the Al–Ghaydah region in Yemen – eight times the annual average.