In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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Question: Washington (CNN) -- The District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island are all to receive a portion of the $3.4 billion remaining in the "Race to the Top" fund for education in those states. "We had many more competitive applications than money to fund them in this round," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday. "Race to the Top" is an Obama administration initiative to award money to states that show that they have a plan for school reforms in four main areas: turning around low performing schools, adopting college and career ready standards, effective teachers and principals, and using data systems to support student achievement.Nine states plus the District of Columbia are winnersEach will receive a portion of $3.4 billionWinners had to show they have plans for school reforms 
 Question:Those finalists all sent representatives to _ in August to present their case to a group of peer reviewers.

Answer: Washington


Question: Executives at a Chinese cosmetics company have emerged as the latest candidates for bosses of the year after they flew 4,500 employees to the Netherlands for a five-day company holiday. Ninety buses were hired to ferry employees of the company, Perfect, around the European country, which was more than happy to welcome its single biggest tourist group. Dutch media said the workers spent upwards of £5 million as they toured cities and the countryside. The tourist group was so large there was not enough available hotel rooms in Amsterdam to accommodate all of them. Workers were spread across Amsterdam, but some wound up staying at hotels in The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam and Utrecht.Ninety buses were hired to ferry the employees around the countryIt was the single biggest tourist group to ever visit the European countryThe workers spent upwards of £5 million as they toured Dutch citiesDutch media said the visitors preferred Chinese dishes over local food 
 Question:When it was time for lunch or dinner they looked for the comforts of home, showing a preference for Chinese restaurants as opposed to traditional _ meals.

Answer: Dutch


Question: An unusual nexus of mining interests, relief work in Haiti, and a former U.S. first family is raising new ethics questions that could affect Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions. Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, was a board member of a North Carolina mining company that enjoyed prime access to Haitian gold deposits in the wake of post-earthquake relief work organized in part by former president Bill Clinton through the Clinton Foundation. Another board member of the firm, VCS Mining, was former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, who co-chaired the charitable Interim Haiti Recovery Commission with Mr. Clinton. The revelation, smacking of cronyism and back-room government dealing, is part of a forthcoming book by Government Accountability Institute founder Peter Schweizer, whose work exposing the investment 'insider trading' habits of members of Congress caused national outrage in 2011 even though the practice was legal.Book due out in May describes alleged sweetheart deal that netted VCS Mining a gold concession that hadn't been issued to anyone in 50 yearsTony Rodham, Mrs. Clinton's brother, sat on the company's boardAnother board member co-chaired a relief effort with former President Bill Clinton following a devastating 2010 earthquake'Clinton Cash' is the latest from Peter Schweizer, who turned heads in 2011 with an expose about insider trading by members of Congress 
 Question:The law originally did not explicitly apply to electronic communications; Congress updated it after Mrs. Clinton left her job as _'s top diplomat.

Answer:
U.S.


