Complete the following passage using suitable connectors in the blanks.
Summer noon is very painful and disgusting. (a) ---- miserable. The sufferings of the people know no bounds (b) ---- the electricity goes off (c) ---- people use hand-fans to fan themselves, Children can neither sleep (d) ---- read. They feel out of Sorts. (e) ----- the poor suffer most. They work outside in the burning sun.