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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.

PASSAGE

As the country embarks on planning ____(1)____ the 12th Plan ____(2012-17)____ period, a key question mark ____(2)____ hangs over the process is on the energy requirements. Growth is energy-hungry and the aspirations of growing at 9-10% will ____(3)____ huge demands on the energy resources of the country. In this energy jigsaw, renewable energy will ____(4)____ like never before in the 12th Plan and the ____(5)____. By the rule of the thumb, India will ____(6)____ about 100 gigawatts ____(Gw)____-100,000 megawatts of capacity addition in the next five years. Encouraging trends on energy efficiency and sustained ____(7)____ by some parts of the government—the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, in particular, needs to be complimented for this–have led to substantially lesser energy intensity of economic growth. However, even the tempered demand numbers are ____(8)____ to be below 80Gw. As against this need, the coal supply from domestic sources is unlikely to support more than 25 Gw equivalent capacity. Imported coal can add some more, but at a much ____(9)____ cost. Gas-based electricity generation is unlikely to contribute anything substantial in view of the unprecedented gas supply challenges. Nuclear will be ____(10)____ in the foreseeable future. Among imported coal, gas, large hydro and nuclear, no more than 15-20Gw equivalent can be ____(11)____ to be added in the five-year time block. ____(12)____ ____(13)____ this, capacity addition in the renewable energy based power generation has touched about 3Gw a year. In the coming five years, the overall capacity addition in the electricity grid ____(14)____ renewable energy is likely to range between 20Gw and 25Gw. Additionally, over and above the grid-based capacity, off-grid electricity applications are reaching remote places and ____(15)____ lives where grid-based electricity supply has miserably failed.