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) As House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the Republican health care bill from voting, I could almost hear the giant sigh of relief from Atlanta and across the nation's health care establishment. Hidden in the nooks and crannies of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was a provision to eliminate $1 billion in disease prevention funds from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Those cheers I imagine I hear right now in Atlanta are huzzahs from the CDC headquarters. According to the GOP plan, "Our Step-by-Step Approach," the first of three steps towards reshaping the American health care market was thwarted on Friday when the White House, recognizing that splits within the Republican Party could not be resolved to allow passage of the AHCA, instructed Ryan to pull the bill. Step two, led by Secretary Tom Price and his team at the Department of Health and Human Services, may still proceed: "going through every page of regulations and guidance related to the Affordable Care Act to determine whether or not they work for patients," with an eye to eliminating the rules laid out by the Obama administration.Laurie Garrett: The life expectancy of Americans is lower than those living in some third-world countriesThe GOP health care bill would have decreased it even more by cutting funding to life-saving preventative care, she writes 
 Question:In 1999 drug overdoses claimed the lives of 6.1 of every 100,000 _, and that soared to 16.3 per 100,000 in 2015.

SOLUTION: American

PROBLEM: A Facebook prank in which a man trolls his racist, xenophobic, and homophobic 'friend' by commenting on every single one of the guy's posts and calling him out for his ignorant views has taken the internet by storm - likely because everyone can relate to seeing these types of comments in their news feeds. In the amusing series of exchanges, which the man behind the hoax have admitted he made up to mock the current political firestorm among conservatives and liberals, a user named 'Robert Graves' relentlessly baits his ultra-conservative friend, 'Brendan Sullivan', by repeatedly mocking his offensive posts. 'Can't believe Kim Davis story has disappeared. She stood up for what she believed in. But now gay marriage has been forced upon this great nation,' Brendan wrote in one post, to which Robert responded: 'Why do you care so much? Worrying about what a couple of gay dudes do in the privacy of their own homes in about the gayest thing a guy can do.'A user named 'Robert Graves' relentlessly baited his ultra-conservative friend, 'Brendan Sullivan', by repeatedly mocking his offensive postsTheir fake exchanges caused a stir on the internet because nearly everyone can relate to having an ignorant Facebook friend like 'Brendan'The prankster came clean about the hoax today, saying he fabricated it to make fun of the political firestorm between liberals and conservatives 
 Question:I must say, that is a grading scale like no other I have seen before,' wrote _.

SOLUTION: Robert Graves

PROBLEM: For once we did not have some suave 45-year-old selling us political soapsuds. Instead we had a bearded codger doing the same, with less finesse. He wore an Oxfam-issue jacket and kept a hand in his pocket while he nurdled away about Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and a Nigerian novelist, the ‘genius’ Ben Okri. That ‘genius’ verdict may be a bit strong but it was good to hear a political leader talk of novels rather than pop bands and football teams. He recited some African-American poetry. And he recalled a protest vigil outside the Iraqi embassy in, ooh, it must have been the late 1980s.Left-wing members gave leader a standing ovation after 60-minute speechCorbyn was cheered on by his sons Ben and Thomas and wife LauraVowed to stand up to his MPs over renewing Trident and ISIS airstrikesBut no mention of immigration, tackling the deficit or the EU referendum 
 Question:For the first time in his career, Mr _ used an autocue.

SOLUTION:
Corbyn

