Direction: In the following passage Four blanks are given, each of which has been numbered. Against each number seven words are suggested, one or more than one of them can fill the blank appropriately. You have to select the option that contains the correct word/words.

On Tuesday the White House announced that it will host the Summit for Democracy and as (1) by many experts China, the self proclaimed democratic nation, trying to put a spoke in US' (2). China claims that in the country elections are regularly held after every 5 years for the country's parliament called National Peoples Congress but the actual meaning of democracy seems to be (3) to the Chinese leaders because before contesting the election a candidate needs the approval of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Only those who are member of the CCP or 8 smaller parties allied to it were allowed to contest election held in 2002-03 and the government always formed by the Communist Party. Clearly China do not want to adopt democracy, it just wants to display itself as a democratic nation because it is not a secret that democracy is the most prevalent form of government in the world today and China wants to (4) but superficially.