DIRECTIONS: In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (1), (2), (3), and (4). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (5) as your answer, if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer. i.e. No Change Required.

Climate science has been an accidental tourist at the debate dominating human (A) primacy in the last two decades. Developing countries like India are being forced to strike a fine, but often impossible, the balance between pushing (B) secretly for economic development and (C) conspiring the unavoidable environmental damage that comes with such development (because of, among other reasons, reliance on dirty energy, unmanaged land use, and natural resource exploitation). Economic development, however, also facilitates higher (D) credits in the human and computational resources required to advance weather and climate (E) predictions as well as to set up educational and research institutions for research on climate, water, food, energy, and health.