For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

What is currently (i) civil engineers is not so much a predicted increase in annual precipitation as the likelihood that many storms will come in (ii) , thereby making flooding in lower lying riparian regions (iii) .

Blank (i)

worrying

comforting

unimportant to

Blank (ii)

more predictable patterns

tighter succession

greater isolation

Blank (iii)

far more likely

somewhat infrequent

all but impossible

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