Directions: In each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five options and each option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence grammatically correct. A $2.6 billion deal with general electric, centered on building 1,000 diesel locomotives in Bihar, almost came unstuck recently, thanks to the _________ bureauc

Step-by-step solution

The deal got stuck because of bureaucratic issues in the Railway Ministry. Fanatic is used in the context of religion and can be eliminated. Passionate shows a positive relationship and can’t be right as the sentence talks about the issue in a negative way. Muted is meaningless. Thus, Option A, D and E can be eliminated. Blank 3 can be filled both by Options B and C. Blank B: Here, option C does not make sense here. Option B fits in perfectly well with all the blanks. Hence, Option B is correct.