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Direction: Select the most appropriate set of words from the given choices to fill in the blanks.

  1. In these bleak and depressing times of ___________ prices, non-performing governments and ___________ crime rates, Sourav Ganguly has given us, Indians, a lot to cheer about
    1. escalating, increasing
    2. spiralling, booming
    3. spiralling, soaring
    4. ascending, debilitating
Correct Option: C

Prices are usually called as spiralling up as well as the increasingly soaring crime rates. Soaring means increasing rapidly.
The correct word is filled in the above given sentence :-
In these bleak and depressing times of spiralling prices, non-performing governments and soaring crime rates, Sourav Ganguly has given us, Indians, a lot to cheer about



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