Question

As the world grapples with the spectre of escalation in West Asia, the last thing it needed is a reversion to chill cold war scenarios in Eurasia, of mutually assured destruction.

Q: Answer-As the world grapples with the spectre of escalation in West Asia, the last thing it needed is a rev...

The sentence is in the present tense, as indicated by As the world grapples. Therefore, it needed should be changed to it needs to match the tense. Chill should be corrected to chilling to convey the correct meaning and to be grammatically appropriate. Chilling cold war scenarios is the correct phrase here, meaning frightening or alarming cold war situations. As the world grapples with the spectre of escalation in West Asia, the last thing it needs is a reversion to chilling cold war scenarios in Eurasia, of mutually assured destruction.

In the question given below, a sentence is given with a part of it printed in bold type. That part may contain a grammatical error. Each sentence is followed by phrases 1), 2), 3) and 4). Find out which phrase should replace the phrase given in bold to correct the error, if there is any, and to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct.

A it needed are a reversion to chill

B it need is a reversion to chill

C it needs is a reversion to chilling

D it needed are a reversion to chilling

E no correction required

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