Listening to President Xi’s quote

Read the short passage excerpted from Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Then listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the words you hear.

     

    From this day forward, the 1. _________ ofthe Communist Party of China will be to lead the Chinese people of all ethnicgroups in a concerted effort to realize the Second Centenary Goal of buildingChina into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance therejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path tomodernization.

     A nation will prosper only when its 2.___________ thrive. China’s young people of today are living in a remarkabletime. They have an incomparably broad stage on which to display their fulltalents, and they have incomparably bright prospects of realizing their dreams.

    All of us in the Party should regard ourwork concerning young people as a matter of strategic significance. We willequip young people with 3. _______________, inspire them with the Party’soriginal aspiration and founding mission, and become their confidants,advocates, and guides for the future.

    Young people: You should steadfastly 4.____________ and its guidance, aim high but stay grounded, and dare to thinkbig and take action but make sure you can deliver. You should strive to be thenew era’s great young generation, a generation with ideals, a sense ofresponsibility, grit, and dedication. As you endeavor to build China into a(n) 5.____________________ in all respects, your youth and vitality will bloom infull splendor.