TP Quiz 1

Put the correct word in the gap: Many global leaders ... his role for promoting peace and advancing freedoms.

• struck

• hailed

• presided

• poured

Put the correct word in the gap: Many users of Chinese social media ... their feelings of witnessing history and the end of an era.

• delivered

• hailed

• expressed

• published

Put the correct word in the gap: However, some users ... Gorbachev of destroying the Soviet Union with his democratic reforms.

• delivered

• accused

• expressed

• attributted

Put the correct word in the gap: State-run tabloid Global Times ... the collapse of the Soviet Union to the democratization of Soviet society under Gorbachev.

• described

• accused

• expressed

• attributted

Put the correct word in the gap: The Communist Party of China ... its own socialist path with Chinese characteristics.

• upholds

• declares

• denies

• contributes

Put the correct word in the gap: During his decade in power, Xi Jinping has ... the centrality of the Communist Party in daily life.

• turned

• befell

• sold out

• revitalized

Put the correct word in the gap: In China Gorbachev's legacy is seen as a ... for the ruling Communist Party, as it raises the specter of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• cautionary tale

• perils of democratic reforms

• positive contribution

• political struggle

Put the correct word in the gap: Chinese leader Xi Jinping presided over ... strengthening China's Communist Party.

• reinforce

• crackdown

• maturity

• sobriety

Choose the appropriate idiomatic expression: to cause concern that something unfortunate might happen.

• sell out one's interests

• turning point

• raise the specter

• strike a nerve

Choose the appropriate idiomatic expression: the time at which a situation starts to change in an important way

• sell out one's interests

• turning point

• raise the specter

• strike a nerve