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]: Stoke City appear to have bought astutely once again in the transfer market, strengthening in various areas and adding quality too. The departures of Steven N’Zonzi and Asmir Begovic are highly significant, but manager Mark Hughes has recruited in both positions and brought in players who can increase creativity and goals. They open their campaign at home to Liverpool, who were demolished 6-1 in the final game of last season, and the team is likely to have a number of alterations. Here, Sportsmail picks a likely XI for the duration of the season should all Hughes’s men be fit. Hughes set his team out in a clear system last year even while switching personnel depending on opponent and form. The front four, for example, was a carousel of names. It should be the same formation this campaign.Losing Asmir Begovic and Steven N'Zonzi this summer was a big blowBut Mark Hughes has responded impressively once again this summerStoke ended last season by battering Liverpool at the Britannia StadiumSo who is likely to line up for Hughes' side in this season's opener?Premier League news: CLICK HERE for all the latest from the EPL 
 Question:Butland has only made six _ appearances since signing in January 2013 but is finally in pole position despite the arrival of Shay Given, 39, from Aston Villa.
[EX A]: Stoke City

[EX Q]: His battered and bloodstained body hung for three days on the cross on which he was crucified. Around his neck, the Islamic State butchers who killed him had hung a handwritten placard accusing him of apostasy — abandoning his religion. He was just 17 and the placard explained that the unnamed boy's crime had been to take photographs of the terrorist organisation's headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which has become the de facto IS capital. Images of his body were smuggled to the West in defiance of the city's terrifying religious police by undercover activists appalled at the daily brutality taking place in their city.Women are forced to become sex slaves, shared by the brutal jihadisLife in Raqqa once revolved around cotton farming. Muslims and Christians once lived together here and the sexes mixed freelyMusic and smoking is banned and thieves are punished with amputation 
 Question:Those caught disobeying _'s rulers face being dragged to the main square — where families once strolled eating ice creams in the evenings, their children cavorting on bikes amid squeals of laughter — to face brutal, summary punishment.
[EX A]: Raqqa

[EX Q]: A tiny baby girl was left with 'unsurvivable' injuries after being mauled in her cot by a nine-stone 'American Bulldog' as her mother and her partner slept in front of the television. Lee Wright's dog 'Snoop' savaged 11-month-old Ava-Jayne Corless as she slept alone upstairs after escaping from his kitchen pen and ripping into the toddler's neck. Ava-Jayne was found with horrific injuries by her distraught mother Chloe King in her boyfriend's Blackburn home in February last year. She died in hospital. Mr Wright is appearing at Blackburn Magistrates' Court charged with owning a banned breed of dog. The court heard today how two veterinary experts - on behalf of the prosecution and the defence - presented strong arguments that the dog appeared to have 42 of a possible 66 characteristics of a pit bull terrier type.Ava-Hayne Corless mauled by 'pit bull-type dog' as she slept aloneMother Chloe King and boyfriend Lee Wright were asleep downstairsThey believed nine-stone dog was blocked in kitchen, but it had escapedWright today denied owning a prohibited dog at Blackburn Magistrates' 
 Question:A second expert witness admitted she is unable to say whether the dog which killed _-Jayne was a pit bull-type.
[EX A]:
Ava

