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

21 February 2024 • 80 questions

Mock testSource label: Test Series

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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(5)

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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. encircled.

Encircled means to make a circle around something or to surround something.

Here, the enormous dust cloud that would have risen up in the atmosphere would have encircled i.e. surrounded the Earth.

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