Cloze Test – Test 107

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

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order (21) upon the common ownership of the means of production and the (22) of social classes, money, and the state. Communism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism, anarchism (anarchist communism), and the political ideologies grouped around both. All these share the analysis that the current order of society stems (23) its economic system, capitalism, that in this system, there are two major social classes: the working class-who must work to survive, and who make up the majority within society-and the capitalist class-a minority who derives profit from employing the working class, through private ownership of the means of production, and that conflict between these two classes will trigger a revolution. The primary element which will (24) this transformation, according to this analysis, is the social ownership of the means of production. Criticism of communism can be roughly divided into those (25) themselves with the practical aspects of 20th century communist states, and those concerning themselves with communist principles and theory.

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

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order (21) upon the common ownership of the means of production and the (22) of social classes, money, and the state. Communism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism, anarchism (anarchist communism), and the political ideologies grouped around both. All these share the analysis that the current order of society stems (23) its economic system, capitalism, that in this system, there are two major social classes: the working class-who must work to survive, and who make up the majority within society-and the capitalist class-a minority who derives profit from employing the working class, through private ownership of the means of production, and that conflict between these two classes will trigger a revolution. The primary element which will (24) this transformation, according to this analysis, is the social ownership of the means of production. Criticism of communism can be roughly divided into those (25) themselves with the practical aspects of 20th century communist states, and those concerning themselves with communist principles and theory.

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

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order (21) upon the common ownership of the means of production and the (22) of social classes, money, and the state. Communism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism, anarchism (anarchist communism), and the political ideologies grouped around both. All these share the analysis that the current order of society stems (23) its economic system, capitalism, that in this system, there are two major social classes: the working class-who must work to survive, and who make up the majority within society-and the capitalist class-a minority who derives profit from employing the working class, through private ownership of the means of production, and that conflict between these two classes will trigger a revolution. The primary element which will (24) this transformation, according to this analysis, is the social ownership of the means of production. Criticism of communism can be roughly divided into those (25) themselves with the practical aspects of 20th century communist states, and those concerning themselves with communist principles and theory.