Reading Comprehension – Test 123

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> One country, two systems was rubric under which China undertook to take Hong Kong back from Britain, after its 99-year lease over the so-called New Territories expired in 1997. The Communist government of China has tended to see this distinction between one and two as a fluid bit of the myriad ephemera that stand between China and its destiny to be the centre of the world. Beijing has imposed its will on Hong Kong and its Legislative Council (LegCo) in assorted ways. A law that would allow Hong Kong to extradite people to mainland China was part of this pattern. Except that it has produced a backlash that has grown into the most emphatic demand for democracy to be heard in any part of China after the Tiananmen Square incidents 30 years ago. <br><br> Beijing does not really need formal extradition for it to bring Hong Kongers it deems deviant to book. It has staged abductions of several offenders, people who have mysteriously disappeared from Hong Kong to reappear equally mysteriously on the mainland, chastened, repentant and grateful to be permitted to go back home. But formal extradition would render such illegal renderings all so proper. However, a spark is all it takes to light a prairie fire. The proposed extradition law set off a massive protest that has forced Carrie Lam, the territory's chief executive, to indefinitely suspend the law and apologise. She still faces a stiff demand for her resignation. She might have to quit. <br><br> True, China would not have blinked if US had not been engaging it in a trade war. Right now, President Xi Jinping has weightier matters to worry about than Hong Kong. For all that, for Beijing to step back in the face of popular protest sets a precedent for other citizens of the country of which Hong Kong is a part, albeit in a different system.

When was the last time, that demands similar to that of Hong Kong were heard in china?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> One country, two systems was rubric under which China undertook to take Hong Kong back from Britain, after its 99-year lease over the so-called New Territories expired in 1997. The Communist government of China has tended to see this distinction between one and two as a fluid bit of the myriad ephemera that stand between China and its destiny to be the centre of the world. Beijing has imposed its will on Hong Kong and its Legislative Council (LegCo) in assorted ways. A law that would allow Hong Kong to extradite people to mainland China was part of this pattern. Except that it has produced a backlash that has grown into the most emphatic demand for democracy to be heard in any part of China after the Tiananmen Square incidents 30 years ago. <br><br> Beijing does not really need formal extradition for it to bring Hong Kongers it deems deviant to book. It has staged abductions of several offenders, people who have mysteriously disappeared from Hong Kong to reappear equally mysteriously on the mainland, chastened, repentant and grateful to be permitted to go back home. But formal extradition would render such illegal renderings all so proper. However, a spark is all it takes to light a prairie fire. The proposed extradition law set off a massive protest that has forced Carrie Lam, the territory's chief executive, to indefinitely suspend the law and apologise. She still faces a stiff demand for her resignation. She might have to quit. <br><br> True, China would not have blinked if US had not been engaging it in a trade war. Right now, President Xi Jinping has weightier matters to worry about than Hong Kong. For all that, for Beijing to step back in the face of popular protest sets a precedent for other citizens of the country of which Hong Kong is a part, albeit in a different system.

Which of the following is false?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> One country, two systems was rubric under which China undertook to take Hong Kong back from Britain, after its 99-year lease over the so-called New Territories expired in 1997. The Communist government of China has tended to see this distinction between one and two as a fluid bit of the myriad ephemera that stand between China and its destiny to be the centre of the world. Beijing has imposed its will on Hong Kong and its Legislative Council (LegCo) in assorted ways. A law that would allow Hong Kong to extradite people to mainland China was part of this pattern. Except that it has produced a backlash that has grown into the most emphatic demand for democracy to be heard in any part of China after the Tiananmen Square incidents 30 years ago. <br><br> Beijing does not really need formal extradition for it to bring Hong Kongers it deems deviant to book. It has staged abductions of several offenders, people who have mysteriously disappeared from Hong Kong to reappear equally mysteriously on the mainland, chastened, repentant and grateful to be permitted to go back home. But formal extradition would render such illegal renderings all so proper. However, a spark is all it takes to light a prairie fire. The proposed extradition law set off a massive protest that has forced Carrie Lam, the territory's chief executive, to indefinitely suspend the law and apologise. She still faces a stiff demand for her resignation. She might have to quit. <br><br> True, China would not have blinked if US had not been engaging it in a trade war. Right now, President Xi Jinping has weightier matters to worry about than Hong Kong. For all that, for Beijing to step back in the face of popular protest sets a precedent for other citizens of the country of which Hong Kong is a part, albeit in a different system.

Which of the following has a similar meaning to 'abduction'?