Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully, and select the answer for each question.
A day of _____(A)_____of the Pulwama attack passed yet again last month. The attack that happened on February 14, 2019, claimed the lives of 40 personnel who were a part of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), India's largest paramilitary force. The Pulwama attack was different as it resulted in _____(B)_____public outcry. The emotional response it evoked in the country cut across all sections of society. As a force, the CRPF takes everything in its stride.
Before this dark day, on April 6, 2010, 76 CRPF personnel were_____(C)_____ left-wing extremists numbering in their hundreds, in the Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh. It is saddening that this terrible attack _____(D)_____ from public attention even though it was another dark day -it remains the deadliest attack on security forces in any counter-insurgency or anti-terrorist operations in independent India.
The internal security scenario in the country has been showing marginal improvement, especially in insurgency-affected northeast India. But one can say that there has been '_____(E)_____ improvement' in left-wing extremism areas and also terrorist-affected Kashmir.