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. 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].
PROBLEM: (CNN) Shortly after Wednesday morning's attack on Republican members of Congress practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game, Congressman Rodney Davis, still in his baseball clothes, spoke to CNN's Brianna Keilar. In addition to describing the events he witnessed, he spoke from the heart. "This hatefulness that we see in this country today over policy differences has got to stop ... Republicans and Democrats need to use this day today to stand together and say 'stop.' Let's work together. Let's get things done," he said. "We can have our differences, but let's not let it lead to such hate." We should all heed Congressman Davis' call, including our President. Since his announcement to run for office, Donald Trump has consistently yelled fire in a crowded political theater by castigating various segments of our population and encouraging his supporters to "knock the crap" out of protesters. And on and on.Douglas Heye: Wednesday's attack on Republicans at a baseball field reminds us that hateful rhetoric accumulates and causes things to escalateWhomever the targets, it was perhaps inescapable that something tragic was coming in an environment like this, Heye writes 
 Question:Many _ supporters have followed his lead, escalating the rhetoric against political opponents and the media.

SOLUTION: Donald Trump

PROBLEM: Washington (CNN) When the United States caught its first big al Qaeda operative, six months after the 9/11 terror attacks, it found a disturbing clue: phone numbers linked to the United States. In an overnight raid, Pakistani forces captured Abu Zubaydah, allegedly a recruiter for the terror group and a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle. Now, 14 years after Zubaydah was apprehended, newly declassified information from a 2002 congressional report on the 9/11 attacks, dubbed the "28 pages," reveals an indirect link previously hidden from the American public between the alleged al Qaeda operative and a company associated with a key member of the Saudi royal family, former Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan.The possibility of official Saudi involvement in 9/11 has hung over the relationship between the two countriesBandar is a key Saudi royal figure known to have a very close relationship with George H. W. Bush 
 Question:"Bayoumi's wife attempted to deposit three of the checks from _'s wife, which were payable to Bassnan's wife, into her own accounts," according to a passage from the 28 pages.

SOLUTION: Bandar

PROBLEM: (CNN) -- At the funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, his good friend, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was photographed embracing Chávez's bereaved mother, in a show of compassion and support. Back home in Tehran, Ahmadinejad was immediately bashed by newspapers and by conservative politicians who cited a religious prohibition against touching a woman who is not your wife or a relative. While theology is a factor, there may have been a deeper message to this backlash from Tehran: that it's no longer cool to be supporting Chávez, his family and political allies, and that this alliance, like others cultivated by Chávez, may be in jeopardy.Eduardo J. Gómez: Ahmadinejad criticized back home for hugging Chávez's motherHe says support in Iran may be waning for alliance with VenezuelaChavez bankrolled anti-U.S. alliance, but new leaders may not want to, he saysGómez: Nations in Latin America may see benefits of improved relations with U.S. 
 Question:Going forward, the United States should explore ways of strengthening its ties with _ and other Latin American nations.

SOLUTION:
Venezuelan

