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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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For most parents, their child's birthday party might entail a game of pass the parcel followed by ice cream and jelly, but not for Sophie-May Dickson, 22, who claims she splashed out £2,500 on her daughter's fifth birthday bash. Ponies were hired, a red carpet laid out and a three-tiered crystal-encrusted birthday cake delivered to create a party fit for Princess Bliss Dickson, Sophie-May's oldest daughter. The mother-of-two, from Essex, whose youngest daughter Precious Belle Ruby Rozina, is three, appeared on ITV's This Morning this week to defend her lavish party throwing - and now FEMAIL has an exclusive peek into the bash.Sophie-May Dickson, 22, says she splashed £2,500 on her daughter's partyPrincess Bliss Dickson turned 5 in September and had ponies at her partyDescribing the event, Sophie-May said: 'It felt like her wedding'
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_-May started planning the event in January and on Princess's big day in September there was a DJ, an entertainer, a bouncy castle, a three-tiered cake, a sweet buffet - and of course some visiting ponies to entertain.


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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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Mid-May this year and staff at Manchester City had a problem. It was Yaya Toure’s birthday and they needed to ensure their star midfielder had a cake. Some people inside the club cared and others didn’t. Toure himself probably didn’t care. But City knew the media would be asking and it was, after all, best to have all bases covered. Toure got his cake. Three months ago, this was not untypical of Toure’s life in England.One of the great players of the Barclays Premier League had been worn down by too much football and his future at City was cast into doubt — not only because of his poor form, but by the persistent pronouncements of close friend and agent Dimitri Seluk.It looked like Yaya Toure would be leaving Manchester City in the summerFriend and agent Dimitry Seluk wanted his client to finish career elsewhereIt was easy to question Toure's state of mind in a disappointing last seasonToure was back to his best in the 3-0 rout at West Brom on Monday nightNow midfielder has his sights set on Chelsea: 'I know what I have to do'
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Nevertheless, _ understands now that his agent’s apparent desire for one last lucrative transfer was a hindrance last season and a conversation between them to that effect is believed to have taken place.