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: Real Madrid and Barcelona have two of the most talented, and expensively assembled, teams in world football. But who would make a combined XI out of the two squads based, not on reputation, but on current form? Allow me to get ahead of the fury of the comments section. If you're Ancelotti do you pick Ronaldo? Of course you do. Cristiano Ronaldo may be the World Player of the Year, but on current form he doesn't make combined XI Our combined XI, which has no place for Ronaldo, but does feature some of the world's best players Ronaldo hasn't scored a league goal from open play in a month, and Gareth Bale is preferred on the wingReal Madrid travel to the Nou Camp to face Barcelona on SundayBarca are top of the league, one point ahead of their great rivalsCristiano Ronaldo is out of form this year, so misses out on Clasico teamBut Messi, Bale and Suarez make up formidable front three 
 Question:There is also only one player who has scored with a direct free-kick for _ this season... and it isn’t Ronaldo it’s Bale.

SOLUTION: Real Madrid

PROBLEM: A tiny baby girl was left with 'unsurvivable' injuries after being mauled in her cot by a nine-stone 'American Bulldog' as her mother and her partner slept in front of the television. Lee Wright's dog 'Snoop' savaged 11-month-old Ava-Jayne Corless as she slept alone upstairs after escaping from his kitchen pen and ripping into the toddler's neck. Ava-Jayne was found with horrific injuries by her distraught mother Chloe King in her boyfriend's Blackburn home in February last year. She died in hospital. Mr Wright is appearing at Blackburn Magistrates' Court charged with owning a banned breed of dog. The court heard today how two veterinary experts - on behalf of the prosecution and the defence - presented strong arguments that the dog appeared to have 42 of a possible 66 characteristics of a pit bull terrier type.Ava-Hayne Corless mauled by 'pit bull-type dog' as she slept aloneMother Chloe King and boyfriend Lee Wright were asleep downstairsThey believed nine-stone dog was blocked in kitchen, but it had escapedWright today denied owning a prohibited dog at Blackburn Magistrates' 
 Question:In a statement read out at hearing, Miss King said: 'I gave her [_] a kiss and told her that I loved her like I always did at night.

SOLUTION:
Ava