Direction: Read the given passage and choose the correct answers for the questions given below.

The annual Sustainable Development Goals Report provides an overview of the world’s implementation efforts to date, highlighting areas of progress and areas where more action needs to be taken to ensure no one is left behind. Five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, the 2020 Report notes that ____1____(impetus, progress, decline) had been made in some areas, such as improving maternal and child health, expanding access to electricity and increasing women’s representation in government. Yet even these advances were offset elsewhere by growing food insecurity, ____2____(deterioration, disruption, conservation) of the natural environment, and persistent inequalities. Now, in only a short period of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has ____3____(smothered, unleashed, triggered) an unprecedented crisis, causing further disruption to SDG progress, with the world’s poorest and most vulnerable affected the most. The annual stocktaking report on progress shows that it is the poorest and most vulnerable – including children, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants, and refugees – who are being hit the hardest by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Women are also bearing the heaviest ____4____ (brunt, facet, onus) of the pandemic’s effects. Further, The report also shows that climate change is still occurring much faster than anticipated. The year 2019 was the second warmest on record and the end of the warmest decade of 2010 to 2019. Meanwhile, ocean acidification is accelerating; land degradation continues; massive numbers of species are at risk of extinction, and unsustainable consumption and production patterns remain ____5_____ (restrained, pervasive, absent).