SSC GD Constable 10 Jan 2023 Shift 2 Paper

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Question Numbers: 76-80
DIRECTION: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
A natural gas barrier in the upper atmosphere called the ozone layer (1.) _________ people and other living things from the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Ozone exists in tiny concentrations (2.) _________ the atmosphere, but the majority (about 90%) is found in the stratosphere, a layer that is 10 to 50 kilometres (3.) _________ the surface of Earth. The ozone layer is essential to life on Earth because it (4.) ________ out the majority of the sun's harmful UV rays. In the 1970s, researchers (5.) __________ that the ozone layer was thinning. 
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