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Directions: In the following questions, you have passages where some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then, fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Yesterday there was a serious accident on the Mall Road. A drunken driver was driving a motor car at forty miles an hour. As the car swept round a 26 comer, it ran 27 a Tonga occupied by a woman with an infant in her arms. The Tonga was overturned. Happily no one was killed but woman and child received 28 injuries. The hostile crowd was so 29 with the driver that all his explanations did not 30 him from being roughed up. It was with great difficulty that he 31. Soon a boy scout 32 on the spot. And provided first aid to the 33 mother and child a policeman also reached 34 and took down the number of the 35.

A) thereafter

B) thence

C) there

D) then