Dictionary or a body anatomy book.
Well, you can eliminate "a terrible storm" and "a national emergency" because they make no sense whatsoever. Catastrophic means terrible, horrible, etc.
The third paragraph suggests that Lata regards science as an unfamiliar but intriguing subject. (option D)
<h3>What Lata thinks about science</h3>
This question refers to a passage from a novel where two friends enter a bookshop in a fictional town called Brahmpur. Lata is one of those friends and, on her way to the poetry section, she stops to look at science books.
The narrator then explains that Lata does not know a lot about science, but that is precisely why she found it fascinating. She thinks science is intriguing when it tries to make sense of the world.
With the information above in mind, we can choose option D as the correct interpretation of the third paragraph.
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