TASK DEFINITION: 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. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
PROBLEM: A man who bludgeoned a businessman to death while high on crack is to be executed today. Gregory Russeau beat car-repair shop owner James Syvertson to death in 2001, leaving his bloody body to be found by his family. He denied being responsible for the murder, alleging that police planted one of his hairs at the crime scene. However, a Texas jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to death. His execution will be the ninth performed by the state in 2015, with four more planned before the end of the year. Unless any last-minute appeals are successful, he will be put to death sometime after 6pm central time - shortly after midnight in the UK - with a lethal dose of pentobarbital.Gregory Russeau will be executed tonight for businessman's murderDenied crime but found guilty and sentenced to death by lethal injectionHe will become ninth prisoner in Texas to be executed this yearVictim's family say they have 'mixed emotions' about killer's sentence 
 Questions:_ is on track to carry out more lethal injections than it did last year. (A) Gregory Russeau (B) James Syvertson (C) Texas (D) UK

SOLUTION: (C)

PROBLEM: New Orleans (CNN) One minute Cardell Hayes was listening to a witness testify on his behalf. The next he was standing in disbelief, listening to second-degree murder and three other felony charges against him. The defendant, dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, turned to his courtroom supporters and said, "Crazy, man." It was a chaotic day in the legal case against the man accused of killing one of New Orleans' beloved sports figures, former Saints defensive end Will Smith, and shooting Smith's wife, Racquel. When the day began at 9 a.m., Hayes was shuttled to a meeting at the district attorney's office. At the same time, his lawyer was tied up in court on other cases, and a grand jury was meeting to decide whether Hayes should be charged.Lawyer for family of Will Smith says they are pleased about the indictmentDefense attorney upset with what went on in court, with his clientCardell Hayes indicted on four charges in shooting of Will Smith and his wife 
 Questions:_ recalled as a force on and off the field. (A) New Orleans (B) CNN (C) Cardell Hayes (D) Saints (E) Will Smith (F) Racquel (G) Hayes (H) Defense

SOLUTION: (E)

PROBLEM: London, England (CNN) -- A specter is haunting Eastern Europe: the ghost of Communism past. Twenty years after the collapse of Soviet-backed communist governments across the bloc, symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall, support for multiparty democracy has fallen in almost every country in the region, according to a wide-ranging new study. Majorities still support democracy over communism in all but one of the nine countries in the survey, but only two nations have seen a rise in approval for democracy. And support for capitalism as an economic system has fallen in every single country surveyed. Eastern Europeans do embrace democracy and capitalism in principle, one of the survey directors said, but they are frustrated in practice.Study: Most support democracy over communism in all but one of nine countriesBut support for capitalism has fallen in all countries surveyedEastern Europeans see gap between how they want things to work, how they actually workJust less than half of Russians say it is "natural for Russia to have an empire" 
 Questions:The Soviet Union itself collapsed at the end of 1991 as its constituent republics, including Russia, declared independence from the _ state. (A) London (B) England (C) CNN (D) Eastern Europe (E) Communism (F) Soviet (G) Berlin Wall (H) Europeans (I) Russians (J) Russia

SOLUTION:
(F)

