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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 _ .
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(CNN) A Mississippi man was sentenced to 49 years in prison Monday and fined $20,000 for killing his ex-girlfriend because she was transgender, the US Justice Department said. Joshua Vallum, 29, of Lucedale is the first person prosecuted for a federal hate crime in which the victim was targeted for being transgender, the Justice Department said in a news release. Vallum knew Mercedes Williamson was a transgender teenage girl when they began dating, but kept her gender identity secret, prosecutors said. They broke up in 2014 but Vallum decided to kill her in May 2015 because a friend had discovered she was transgender, the Justice Department said.Joshua Vallum pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriendJustice Department: He killed because she was transgender
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He would not have killed _ if she was not transgender, he said.


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Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini fears Samir Nasri could miss most of the rest of the season, but hopes Vincent Kompany and David Silva are back in action within a week. French midfielder Nasri, who has missed City's last six games with a hamstring injury, this week revealed via Twitter that he could be out for another three months. Now Pellegrini has given more details about the 28-year-old's condition, revealing that he faces a tendon operation after suffering a setback on the training ground, and the lay-off could be longer than feared. Pellegrini said: 'We don't have Samir Nasri for four or five months. He has a tendon injury in his right leg so now he must have surgery because it's an important (serious) injury.'Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini is concerned that midfielder Samir Nasri could miss most of the rest of the season through injuryThe France international has missed City's last six games with a hamstring problem and has suffered another setback on the training groundNasri is set to undergo a tendon operation in the coming weeksCity striker Sergio Aguero, however, is fit again after his own lay-off
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I hope it's the same as with _, that next week he can be okay.'


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(CNN) Senate intelligence committee Chairman Richard Burr shut down a line of questioning from California Sen. Kamala Harris at Wednesday's high-profile hearing, admonishing her and other Democrats to stop cutting off witnesses. The move rankled some on Twitter who argued the North Carolina Republican was singling out Harris, one of three women on the intelligence panel, during Wednesday's contentious hearing. Harris was pressing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over whether he would sign a letter to give Special Counsel Robert Mueller full independence from the Justice Department in his probe, which would have the same effect as a letter issued for then-Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the investigation into the 2003 leaking of then-covert CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity.Sen. Kamala Harris grilled deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at a hearing WednesdayThe exchange prompted Republican senators to stop interrupting
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"Mr. Chairman, respectfully, I would point out that this witness has joked, as we all have, his ability to filibuster," _ argued, before Burr stopped her again.