In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each sentence,there are five words out of which one can be used to fill the blank to make the sentence grammatically and coherently correct. Find the most appropriate word that fit into the blank contextually.

Q:

The government believes that the present slowdown, marked by five ____________ quarters of dropping growth, is merely a cyclical one.

• 1
  luxurious
• 2
  successful
• 3
  cramped
• 4
  consecutive
• 5
  spacious