OICL Specialist Officer Finance Exam 2015 Question Paper

In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case,

All industrial nations one day hit an environmental turning point, an event that dramatises to the population the ecological consequences of growth. In America that event occurred in 1969, when the Cuyahoga river in Ohio (1) with pollutants and bereft of fish caught fire. America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was (2) the same year. Strict environmental laws passed by Japan in the 1970s followed the (3) that poisonous mercury spilled from a plastic factory was claiming thousands of lives (4) the bay of Minamata. The fetid smog that settled on Beijing in January 2013(5) join the ranks of these game changing environmental disruptions. Public concern (6). The ‘airpocalypse’ injected a new urgency into local debate about the environment and (7) a green policy frenzy a few months later. The government unveiled a (8) of reforms to restrict air pollution. It started the country’s first carbon market, made (9) environmental crimes easier and made local officials more accountable for air quality in (10) areas. It is therefore said that China will do for zero carbon energy what it has already done for consumer electronics put it within the reach of everyone