In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the
options given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
Here are some statistics for those interested in numbers and percentages. The proportion of (1)______ users in India is said to be
90.1%. While the use of landline phones continues to decline, the (2)______ of mobile phone users appears to have reached a plateau,
according to reports. The number of (3)______ to landline phones had gone up from 9.8 million in 1995 to 21.7 million in 2019. On the
other hand, India had only 1.2 million cell phone users in 1999, which grew to an (4)______ figure of 1,161.7 million in 2019. It’s
unimaginable, isn’t it? Mobile phones have also literally (5)______ phone booths. There were about 6.2 million public call offices in India
in 2008. The number declined to 0.2 million in 2019; of those, 0.1 million public telephones are in villages. New York city is said to have
only 4 such booths.