Direction: Some words have been left out in the following passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives:

Surging power demand in India poses a [1]__________ for a country where solar power is growing rapidly but generation capacity is stretched when the sun [2] __________  down. In 2022, India’s power demand grew about 8% — or at nearly double the pace of the Asia Pacific region something to more than 149.7 terawatt-hours (TWh) from the previous year. And in the first two months of 2023, demand jumped 10% from a year ago. In absolute terms, the states with the strongest growth in demand in 2022 were the northwestern desert state Rajasthan and the western states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, where many of the country’s industries are [3] __________ , a Reuters analysis of government data showed. The eastern state of Chhattisgarh, known for extensive mining activity, had 16.6% growth in the five months since the monsoon ended in 2022, while Rajasthan’s power demand grew 15.1% in the same period. Growth rates were also high in Punjab in the north, where agricultural demand makes up the [4] __________ ’s share of total power use, and Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Bihar — where residential demand has historically accounted  [5] __________  most of the load.