ibps-so 2024 · Question 40 of 209

The COVID-19 pandemic is first and ____________ human tragedy, _________ more than 120,000 and killing more than 4,200 people. In the following questions a sentence is given with two blanks. The sentence is then provided with five options which consist of the words that can fill the given blanks. Choose that option as the correct answer which can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option.

1. Aapex, aptly
2. Bcurb, deteriorating
3. Cbenign, evolving
4. Dforemost, infectingCorrect
5. Edebut, exotic