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) Sen. Marco Rubio, a longtime hawk on Syria, praised the US airstrike on a Syrian airfield days after a chemical attack on innocents attributed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Following news that President Donald Trump had green-lit the US action, Rubio said Thursday on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that Russia could not fairly criticize the military strike because Russia backed Assad -- who is accused of perpetrating the attack on his own people. "They have no standing to say anything about this," Rubio said of the Russians. He said that the move doesn't just send a message, but amounts to a "significant degrading" of Assad's ability to carry out chemical attacks.Rubio said Russians had put themselves into harm's wayHe said the strikes indicated a firm US stance against Assad's reign 
 Question:"I'll let them speak for their policy, but tonight's actions show that the days of being able to act with impunity are over when it comes to _-Assad," Rubio said.

SOLUTION: Bashar al

PROBLEM: It’s alright for Gary Neville. It’s all sun, sangria and viva Espana for him now. So who’s going to look after our insider football expertise on a wet Monday night in the Premier League now then? In the search for their new Bond, Sky Sports immediately turned to the dapper figure of Craig Bellamy. He was in the chair last Monday for Everton's draw with Crystal Palace. Sporting a window pane check suit that certainly ensured you would see him coming. And he did perfectly well. He’s a bright fella, and he made his points. But in watching him catch the eye alongside the now stalwart Jamie Carragher, it occurred to me perhaps why Gary Neville seemed to quickly become so popular with viewers.Gary Neville left Monday Night Football to become the new Valencia bossJohn Terry joined Jamie Redknapp in the studio on Saturday eveningThe Chelsea captain could be the man to fill in for Neville on Sky Sports 
 Question:Like _, Terry seemed to have secured his haircut of choice a long time ago.

SOLUTION: Gary Neville

PROBLEM: FAIRBURN, Georgia (CNN) -- In a south Atlanta neighborhood lined with palatial homes and manicured lots, the Hicks family was living out its American dream. Breylan and Terese Hicks play with their sons Bryce, 3, and Jordan, 2. But like many Americans, that dream was interrupted when they almost lost their home to foreclosure. Terese, a firefighter, and her husband Breylan, a police sergeant, had always dreamed about owning a spacious house in the suburbs. When they began their search, the young family was living in a south Atlanta neighborhood. They grew concerned and decided to move when crime in the area started to pick up.The Hicks family purchased a "dream home" just south of Atlanta, GeorgiaThe couple struggled to pay the interest-only mortgage after it adjustedThey suffered a series of financial blows from health issues to loss of incomeHomeFree-USA consulted with their lender to avoid foreclosure 
 Question:To make matters worse, Terese Hicks, a city employee, had to take a 10-percent pay cut in her salary, and the family was burdened with a mountain of medical bills for numerous surgeries their 6-month-old son _ underwent to treat a birth-related medical condition.

SOLUTION:
Jordan