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: Two of the world's most baseball-obsessed nations declared an end to a half-century of hostility six months ago, raising hopes of warmer ties between the home of the Major Leagues and the source of some of its best talent. But the most important act of sports diplomacy since then is taking place on a soccer field. On Tuesday, the New York Cosmos become the first U.S. professional team to play in Cuba since Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama announced that they were re-establishing diplomatic relations. Cuban officials said the friendly match against Cuba's national team was a sign of soccer's growing popularity on the island, and an important step in the normalization of the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba.New York Cosmos will play the Cuba national football team on TuesdayAmerica and Cuba put an end to a half-century of hostility six months agoPele, who played for the original Cosmos franchise, will attend the matchNow-defunct Chicago Sting were last team to play in Cuba, back in 1978 
 Question:While _ is far from a soccer powerhouse, the sport hasn't been spared the waves of departures that have robbed the island's teams of many top-ranked athletes.

SOLUTION: Cuba

PROBLEM: 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.

SOLUTION: Raqqa

PROBLEM: Planners in Windsor have allowed two Costa cafes less than 500 yards apart (file picture) Coffee addicts in Windsor won't have to go far for a fix – after planners in the royal borough allowed two Costa shops less than 500 yards apart. And anyone really desperate can always stop off at the Costa Express in between. The latest Costa will open on the site of the former Dedworth Road HSBC branch, the last bank in the area before it closed last year amid protests. Less than 500 yards away is a Costa which replaced a cycle shop earlier this year.Town planners have allowed two Costa cafes less than 500 yards apartTwo coffee shops in Windsor will be just a short walk away from each otherAnd there is even a Costa Express in between the two new outlets 
 Question:_'s planning application says the new shop would be a 'significant driver to local trade'.

SOLUTION:
Costa