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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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(CNN) On Saturday, January 14, employees at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus received a shocking announcement after evening performances at Orlando and Miami. Representatives of Feld Entertainment, the show's parent company, revealed that the circus would shut down forever in May. Less than 24 hours later, the venerable Big Apple Circus announced that it would sell off its assets in a bankruptcy auction on February 7. When Ringling Bros. and Big Apple Circus announced impending demise within a day of each other, it was hard, in some ways, to believe they had really come to the end of the road. Each circus has faced the threat of death before. The nonprofit Big Apple Circus has weathered bone-thin budgets since its founding in 1977 and it survived the disastrous financial crisis in 2008.Janet M. Davis: Circuses in the 19th century and today are best defined by their ability to adapt to changing social conditionsCirque du Soleil is expanding and 90% of the American population lives within an hour's drive of a circus, Davis writes
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According to _ casting director Pavel Kotov, the show intends to hire American talent for its American-based units.


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(CNN) -- North Korea stirred up fresh unease in Northeast Asia early Thursday, threatening attacks by a "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear force and warning, "The moment of explosion is approaching fast." The new threat came after the North Koreans locked South Korean workers out of a joint factory complex and announced plans to restart a nuclear reactor it shut down five years ago. Meanwhile, the United States announced it was sending ballistic missile defenses to Guam, a Pacific territory that's home to U.S. naval and air bases. "The moment of explosion is approaching fast. No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow," North Korea's state news agency KCNA declared in its latest broadside. "The responsibility for this grave situation entirely rests with the U.S. administration and military warmongers keen to encroach upon the DPRK's sovereignty and bring down its dignified social system with brigandish logic."NEW: North Korea reportedly demands the withdrawal of South Korean workers from jointly run complexAnalyst says both sides need to cool the rhetoric"The moment of explosion is approaching fast," North Korea saysU.S. moves missile defense system to Guam
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_ is short for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name for North Korea.


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Support for British military action against ISIS has risen sharply in the last five months, as the government comes under pressure to catch Jihadi John. David Cameron has vowed to give security and defence chiefs everything they need ‘to find these people and put them out of action’ after the ISIS killer was unmasked as former London student Mohammed Emwazi. Backing for air strikes against ISIS has risen by 11 points to 63 per cent since September, while support for boots on the ground has grown from a quarter to a third. Scroll down for video New polling shows support for the RAF taking part in airstrikes has risen from 52 per cent in September last year to 63 per cent, according to a YouGov survey for The Times63% now back RAF airstrikes against ISIS, up from 52% in SeptemberMPs votes in favour of bombing raids in Iraq but not Syria last yearSupport for US and UK ground troops rises from 24% to 32%, poll shows
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The naming of terrorist as Emwazi has put renewed pressure on the security services, after it emerged he had been pinpointed as a potential terrorist by the _ authorities but was nonetheless able to travel to Syria in 2013 and join ISIS.