Alex was the best friend anyone could have… we spent many years together and I became attached to her. But out of nowhere Alex got a non-operable brain tumor, it was cancerous. I couldn’t believe it, my best friend fell prey to an inevitable death. I shed one too many tears to count, to this day I can’t even believe it. Alex was the type of person to help you without expecting anything in return. She was such a nice person who never bad mouthed anyone, she managed to smile in the darkest patches of life… I truly wish her glimmering smile could light the dark for me once again…
The passage above is an excerpt from this. If the underlined word, which is "crisis", be substituted with the word "event" instead, this would create a tone of less intense. Answer is opt
