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SSC GD 2024 PYQ — Question 2

SSC GD Const (English) - 21 Feb 2024 - Shift 2 • English • Q2

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Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blanks out of the four alternatives.

Several lines of geological evidence (1)_____________ that an asteroid that was as much as 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter hit the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous (2)_________. This evidence includes an ancient impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico that dates (3)__________ the time of the extinction. The impact would have produced an enormous dust cloud that would have (4)__________ into the atmosphere and (5)__________ the planet.

Select the most appropriate option for blank(4)

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. risen up.

Risen up means to move upwards in the form of bubbles or dust, as from the effect of heating or an explosion.

Here, an enormous dust cloud would have been created that would have risen up in the atmosphere.