Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the given alternatives.

Governments may take several forms. In history there have ___(1)___many forms of government. Aristotle had given a six fold classification of governments—three normal and three perverted forms of government. The three normal types of government are____(2)___, rule by one person; aristocracy, rule by a few; polity, rule by many. If these normal forms are perverted, monarchy becomes___(3)___, aristocracy becomes oligarchy and polity becomes democracy.

Thus Aristotle regarded democracy as the worst form of government, but he felt that the ___(4)___capacity of the citizens for sound collective Judgement could assure the success of this form. After Aristotle, numerous ____(5)___of governments have been proposed by political thinkers but as pointed by Garner, “There seems to be no single___(6)___, or criterion, Juridical or otherwise, upon which a satisfactory classification of governments can be made. Today, our attention is drawn to two major forms: totalitarianism in which the control is in the hands of one or a few persons; and democracy, in which political power is diffused and ___(7)___by the process of representation. The citizens in many states are in a quandary as to which form they should adopt. Russia and China are the classic ____(8)___of totalitarian form of government. Under totalitarianism, there is rigidly patterned social organization.