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Why we are using the word "crop" here instead of using "scramble"?

Plz provide a valid reason.
Thanks.

Question:
DIRECTIONS: Fill in each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with the most suitable words from the choice provided under the passage.


After ten years of _(a)_ inflation, prices have spiked 7.5% in the third week of July. This looks scary after all, Indians had got used to prices crawling up by 2% in the last two years, and a 10year average inflation rate of about 5%but you shouldn’t worry. This burst of inflation is the result of three factors that have come together unexpectedly, are unlikely to _(b)_ for long and are unlikely to _(c)_ up together again. A _(d)_ rise in global oil prices, a monsoon that arrived late and a spike in global metal prices. North Sea crude has crossed $42 per barrel, driven up by low petroleum _(e)_ and soaring demand. In the US as war production heats up. Oil markets are also spooked by the _(f)_ of Russian oil supplies falling on the back of the Yukos-Sibneft probe. There’s little that the government can do to _(g)_ users from soaring oil prices indeed, it shouldn’t, if it wants to _(h)_ efficiency. Higher transport costs have pushed up rates of vegetables and fruits farm produce could also get affected by rains that arrived too late for kharif sowing. China is _(i)_ up steel and other metals from all over the world to _(j)_ a construction boom ahead of the 2008 Olympics, making metal prices soar all over the world, and sparking inflation in India.

Mark the correct option for blank _(c)_.
Options:
A)

scramble

B) mount 
C) arrive
D) crop
Solution:
Ans: (d)

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