Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

India’s official statistical machinery is gearing up to ___(1)___ the All-India Household Consumer Expenditure Survey, traditionally undertaken quinquennially, from July 2022. If it fructifies, the result may be known towards the latter half of 2024, provided the Government permits the ___(2)___. The last such Survey (2017-18), did not get such a ___(3)___ — its results reportedly indicated the first fall in monthly per-capita spending by households since 1972-73, with rural households ___(4)___ a sharper decline compared to 2011-12. The Statistics Ministry had ___(5)___ ‘discrepancies’, ‘data quality issues’, and ‘divergences’ between estimated consumption levels and the actual output of goods and services. While it had sought to scuttle suggestions that unflattering data were being ___(6)___, a better course of action would have been to release the data with caveats. It could have argued, for instance, that the numbers, at best, reflect the short-term ___(7)___ of the ‘bold structural reforms’ carried out in the year preceding the Survey, to ‘formalize’ the economy — demonetization and the GST. A fresh survey could then have been commissioned later for a ___(8)___ picture. This is what the UPA had done in 2011-12 to ___(9)___ employment and consumer spending levels afresh, after the 2009-10 Surveys were affected by the global financial ___(10)___ and a severe drought that hit rural incomes.