Cloze Test – Test 42

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

An election is a formal decision-making (21) by which a population (22) an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has (23) since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.</br> The universal use of elections as a (24) for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.</br> Today, sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common law-based legal systems and is sometimes used in (25) citizen groups with political advisory power (citizens' juries or citizens' assemblies).

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

An election is a formal decision-making (21) by which a population (22) an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has (23) since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.</br> The universal use of elections as a (24) for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.</br> Today, sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common law-based legal systems and is sometimes used in (25) citizen groups with political advisory power (citizens' juries or citizens' assemblies).

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

An election is a formal decision-making (21) by which a population (22) an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has (23) since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.</br> The universal use of elections as a (24) for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.</br> Today, sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common law-based legal systems and is sometimes used in (25) citizen groups with political advisory power (citizens' juries or citizens' assemblies).