In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .

Q: Washington (CNN) -- Just two months after the brinksmanship of the "fiscal cliff," on Friday Washington faced yet another deadline to avoid yet another fiscal calamity of its own making. But this time, something is different. As congressional leaders met in the White House on Friday for what was little more than a photo-op on the day forced budget cuts went into effect, this time there are no 11th-hour negotiations to save the day. There is no last-minute effort to call in Vice President Joe Biden on behalf of Democrats or Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on behalf of Republicans to get things back on track.Washington faced yet another fiscal deadline -- this time with no real effort to negotiateCouples therapist: Democrats, Republicans lost sight of big picture, are just arguing to winCouples mediator: Disagreements should be used to find solutions

A: "And that's exactly what they're doing -- the Democrats and the _ are doing with each other.
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Q: February 10, 2017 In today's show, you'll learn why a major snowstorm in the U.S. Northeast isn't technically a nor'easter. We're also explaining how crowdsourcing technology is helping farmers overcome challenges and how DNA evidence was used to save a dog's life. And snowflakes get an extreme close-up. WEEKLY NEWSQUIZ Click for a printable version of the Weekly Newsquiz (PDF). 1. What country, whose scientists are not allowed to work with NASA, is hoping to become a major space power through missions to the dark side of the moon, Mars, and a probe to Jupiter? 2. As discussed on Monday's show, the American spacecraft Orion is designed to take as many as six astronauts into deep space for what duration of time?This page includes the show TranscriptThe Weekly Newsquiz tests your knowledge of events in the news

A: Name the two scientists who in 1953 described the structure of _ as a double helix.
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Q: (CNN) A Tennessee teacher who authorities believe abducted a student had conducted research on teen marriage, authorities told HLN on Tuesday night. "That is an issue that we have some major concerns of because it might potentially speak to his intentions for her," Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesman Josh DeVine said of Tad Cummins. The spokesman said he could not get into specifics. Officials also are trying to authenticate a statement made by the student's family, DeVine said. Elizabeth Thomas had said she was going away for the day but that someone should call police if she wasn't home by evening, a relative told HLN earlier.Elizabeth Thomas asked that police be called if she wasn't home by evening of March 13, brother saysA teacher, Tad Cummins, and the teen disappeared from Tennessee town that day

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Four days later, an official reprimand issued to Cummins on February 4, indicated that _ had been in his classroom for a half-hour earlier that day.
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