Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

China’s government announced on April 19 that it had signed a landmark security ___(1)___ with the Solomon Islands, evoking ___(2)___ from Australia and the U.S. The agreement is the first of its kind that China has agreed with any country, and underlines its ambitions to play a security ___(3)___ in the Pacific. The final version has not been made public, but according to a draft that was leaked last month, it will pave the way for China to ___(4)___ its security forces there. The Solomon Islands can request police and military personnel “to assist in ___(5)___ social order”, while China can make ship visits and use its ports for ___(6)___. This will give China’s vessels a strategic ___(7)___ in the Pacific, in a region close to Australia and Guam, where the U.S. has a naval base. Both countries unsurprisingly expressed ___(8)___, with Washington, this week, even ___(9)___ a senior official and Indo-Pacific Coordinator, Kurt Campbell, to the Solomon Islands, who will take up the pact as well as plans to reopen the U.S. Embassy there. China questioned the ___(10)___ of the visit, noting that the Embassy had been closed for 29 years but the U.S. had now taken a “sudden” interest.