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].

[EX Q]: Nasa scientists say they have fixed a glitch that saw them lose contact with the New Horizon’s space probe just days before its close encounter with Pluto - and have released a new image of four unknown 'black spots' on the dwarf planet. The spacecraft entered ‘safe mode’, cutting contact with the Earth over the weekend, due to a timing flaw as it performed operations ahead of its fly past Pluto next week. Scientists leading the mission say they hope to return the space probe to full operation by Tuesday and the mission to fly within 7,750 miles (12,500km) of Pluto on July 14 will go ahead as planned.Nasa lost touch with the space probe for 89 minutes on Saturday 4 JulyNew Horizons' autopilot put spacecraft's main computer into 'safe mode'Scientists leading the mission hope to have it fully operation by 7 JulyNew Horizons is due to be the first spacecraft to fly past Pluto on July 14 
 Question:The three images together show the full extent of a continuous swath of dark terrain that wraps around much of _’s equatorial region.
[EX A]: Pluto

[EX Q]: Montgomery, Alabama (CNN) President Donald Trump's endorsement and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's money carried their preferred candidate over the first hurdle in Alabama's Senate race Tuesday. But the results showed why the second hurdle will be much tougher to clear. Sen. Luther Strange, the national Republicans' preferred candidate, topped Rep. Mo Brooks to finish second Tuesday and advance to a runoff against controversial former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. But Moore was the clear first-place finisher, earning 39% of the vote, compared to 31% for Strange and 19% for Brooks, with 95% of precincts' results tallied. Moore and Strange will now face off in a September 26 runoff to determine who will face Doug Jones -- who cruised through Tuesday's Democratic primary -- in the December special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions' former seat.Roy Moore and Luther Strange will now face off in a September 26 runoffStrange, previously Alabama's attorney general, filled the seat in February 
 Question:Moore predicted that "the most negative campaign ads in the history of _" will be aired against him by pro-Strange groups, and said it's up to voters to reject them.
[EX A]: Alabama

[EX Q]: (CNN) She's been called a "Russian government attorney," a "trusted insider" of the Kremlin, the "go-to lawyer for the Moscow regional government" and an acquaintance of Russia's powerful prosecutor general. Natalia Veselnitskaya, 42, rose from obscurity to international notoriety following the disclosure of her June 9, 2016, meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort. She also appears to have amassed considerable wealth in a very short period of time, 14 years ago, when her legal career in the Moscow region (not to be confused with the city of Moscow) was in its infancy and she was just transitioning from being a government employee to a private practitioner.Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was a key participant at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and campaign aidesMichael Weiss: How a young provincial attorney with a modest income was able to afford seven figures worth of property is a very Russian mystery -- as is her journey to the Trump Tower meeting 
 Question:Browder is convinced that he has been targeted by both Chaika and _ in a coordinated campaign of vilification and disinformation.
[EX A]:
Natalia Veselnitskaya

