Select the most appropriate pair of determiners to fill in the blanks in the following sentence:-

Have you had _____ news from your family in Mumbai? I heard that _____ areas were badly flooded.

any, some

The correct answer is Option (3) → any, some

Have you had any news from your family in Mumbai? I heard that some areas were badly flooded.

"Any" is appropriate for use in questions (interrogative sentences) when asking about an unspecified quantity or existence of uncountable nouns like "news."

some → used to refer to an unspecified number or amount (usually positive), such as some areas.