Multiple choice

Fill blank (ii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

With the exhilarating arrival of Mars Orbiter Mission today, India has joined the ___ (i) ___ of interplanetary nations. Actually, you ___ (ii) ___ argue that India's been interplanetary ever since Mars Orbiter Mission departed Earth's gravitational influence. Mars Orbiter Mission ___ (iii) ___ homegrown in India, built ___ (iv) ___ a successful and skilled Indian aerospace establishment, carrying Indian-built instruments and operated ___ (v) ___ Bangalore; the main foreign contribution to this mission's success has been the ___ (vi) ___ communications services of NASA's Deep Space Network, delivering Mars Orbiter Mission's ___ (vii) ___ to Earth. India has dared to do something ___ (viii) ___ was previously beyond its reach - and by daring, and then achieving it, India has ___ (ix) ___ its own possibilities. India created history today, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit in its ___ (x) ___ attempt.

  1. should

  2. could

  3. would

  4. must

  5. .

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The modal verb ‘could’ is commonly used in conditional sentences as the conditional form of can” or to make a suggestion. In this context the sentence is suggesting a course of action that can be taken as there is an argument that India's been interplanetary ever since Mars Orbiter Mission departed Earth's gravitational influence. Thus, the use of ‘could’ in this context is correct.