Cloze Test – Test 70

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

A civil war, also known as an intrastate war in polemology, is a war between organized groups (21) the same state or country, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly (22) state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to (23) independence for a region or to change government policies. The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.</br> A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale. Civil wars may result in large numbers of (24) and the consumption of significant resources. Most modern civil wars involve intervention by outside powers. According to Patrick M. Regan in his book Civil Wars and Foreign Powers (2000) about two thirds of the 138 intrastate conflicts between the end of World War II and 2000 saw international intervention, with the United States (25) in 35 of these conflicts.

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

A civil war, also known as an intrastate war in polemology, is a war between organized groups (21) the same state or country, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly (22) state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to (23) independence for a region or to change government policies. The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.</br> A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale. Civil wars may result in large numbers of (24) and the consumption of significant resources. Most modern civil wars involve intervention by outside powers. According to Patrick M. Regan in his book Civil Wars and Foreign Powers (2000) about two thirds of the 138 intrastate conflicts between the end of World War II and 2000 saw international intervention, with the United States (25) in 35 of these conflicts.

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

A civil war, also known as an intrastate war in polemology, is a war between organized groups (21) the same state or country, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly (22) state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to (23) independence for a region or to change government policies. The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.</br> A civil war is a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale. Civil wars may result in large numbers of (24) and the consumption of significant resources. Most modern civil wars involve intervention by outside powers. According to Patrick M. Regan in his book Civil Wars and Foreign Powers (2000) about two thirds of the 138 intrastate conflicts between the end of World War II and 2000 saw international intervention, with the United States (25) in 35 of these conflicts.