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: Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama has hosted plenty of confrontational foreign leaders at the White House, haggling over military aggression, trade disputes and any other irritant that brings a head of state into the Oval Office. When Obama convened the leaders of the Nordic bloc on Friday, it was not one of those meetings. "This was a very useful and important conversation, although there was probably too much agreement to make for as exciting a multilateral meeting as I sometimes participate in," Obama joked after a 90-minute session with the leaders of Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark Friday. Amid turmoil in the Middle East, cross-border aggression in Eastern Europe, maritime disputes in Asia and restive governments in South America, the northern European nations remain an oasis of liberal cool for a president who has sometimes been described in similar terms.President Obama will host a state dinner to honor five Nordic nationsObama has praised the countries' stability 
 Question:It's no wonder Obama is fond of musing to his aides, "Why can't all countries be like the _ countries?".

SOLUTION: Nordic

PROBLEM: Washington (CNN) If Donald Trump's campaign aides like Paul Manafort were contacting Russian officials during the campaign, then the President had nothing to do with it, claims former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. "If anybody crossed a line and gave information to a foreign agent or foreign government or foreign intelligence official, whether that's Paul Manafort or it's Rick Gates or anybody else, I hope they're held accountable," Lewandowski told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN. He later added: "Any staffer who contacted or potentially contacted a Russian agent or a Russian official has done so on their own accord and not at the direction of the campaign, the President or anybody else in the administration."Lewandowski attempted to shield the PresidentManafort has denied the alleged contact as "100% not true" 
 Question:Lewandowski and _ were considered part of two rival power centers in the campaign during the time they overlapped.

SOLUTION: Paul Manafort

PROBLEM: Boris Johnson warned David Cameron last night that he must be prepared to 'walk away' from Europe if he fails to get a good deal for Britain. He used his maiden speech in the Commons since being re-elected as an MP to underline his own Eurosceptic credentials. The London Mayor spelt out a warning to the Prime Minister that Conservative MPs would not accept a cosmetic renegotiation of Britain's membership of the EU. Mr Johnson said he wished the Prime Minister luck on his 'pan-European schmoozathon'. He added: 'I believe his efforts will be crowned with success but I remind him… that if you are going to go into a difficult international negotiation of this kind, then you have to be prepared to walk away if you don't get the result that you want.Mr Johnson said he wished PM luck on his 'pan-European schmoozathon'Said he believed David Cameron's efforts would be 'crowned with success'But said UK should be prepared to 'strike out' and 'forge alternative future' 
 Question:'The Prime Minister has been very clear we are not neutral observers in this – if we can get a decent package we will be selling hard the advantages not just of staying in the _ but of stepping up.

SOLUTION:
Europe