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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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John Sutton Jr has spent the first Saturday of May the same way since he was 8 years old - on the sidelines of the Kentucky Derby. To commemorate his dedication to horse racing, Churchill Downs - the track that hosts the race every year - is inviting the 84-year-old man to attend his 76th-straight Kentucky Derby as their special guest on May 2. This week, Sutton invited a reporter from WAVE 3 into the Louisville home he shares with his wife of 61 years Doris, where she spoke about his very first Derby and showed off his impressive collection of racing memorabilia.John Sutton Jr was just 8 years old in 1940, when his blacksmith father took him to his first Kentucky DerbyThe 84-year-old Louisville native hasn't missed a race since, and has amassed an impressive collection of memorabilia over the past 76 racesChurchill Downs, the racing grounds that hosts the competition, has invited Sutton to watch the event for free as a special guest on May 2 
 Question:Through the years: The _ programs got more and more colorful over the years.
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Kentucky Derby


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(CNN) Russia, of late, has been demonstrating not only increased confidence in its own abilities and capabilities, but also a sense of urgency in being as well prepared as possible for open conflict. Russia's ramping up of hostile actions reflects not so much a disregard for its international reputation, as some commentators have suggested, as an urgent concern in Moscow at the prospect of impending conflict with the West. Each week brings startling new evidence of Russia's lack of restraint in pursuing its own security agenda. Opinions differ on the underlying objectives, but it is almost always a mistake to look for a single reason for Russian actions.Keir Giles: Each week brings new evidence of Russia's lack of restraint in pursuing its own security agendaRussia sees that it is already in conflict with the West in every domain except direct and deliberate military clashes, he says 
 Question:The move to overt, even blatant, intelligence gathering and probing for vulnerabilities has led to the activities of _ hackers, spies, submarines and satellites that previously were conducted in deep secrecy now being commonly reported in open media.
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Russia


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Washington (CNN) NAACP President Cornell William Brooks derided Donald Trump Wednesday, saying his recent comments about African-Americans were "an insulting degree of ignorance and/or insensitivity." On Tuesday, the Republican presidential nominee said African-American communities in the US are "absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before." "We're going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever," Trump told a nearly all-white crowd during a rally in North Carolina. Brooks said Trump's assertion ignores "the fact that African-Americans were lynched, African-Americans were forced to drink out of colored water fountains, ride the back of the bus, were enslaved in this country ... demonstrates a profound ignorance of history and insensitivity to what we are going through at this very moment.""(It) demonstrates a profound ignorance of history," he saidTrump has tried to reach out to the black community 
 Question:King, who is black, said the word as he argued that African-_ cannot achieve success by emulating white people, as they will remain "negroes."
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Americans


