TASK DEFINITION: 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 _ .
PROBLEM: (CNN) You have to love the exquisite timing, at the very least. Our ears are still ringing from the concussive noises and boycott threats after a second consecutive year of all-white Academy Awards nominees were announced only days ago. Now comes the disclosure that Joseph Fiennes, a white actor best known for playing the title role in the 1998 Oscar winner "Shakespeare in Love," has been cast to play another artistic icon: Michael Jackson. No, this website didn't just morph into The Onion before your eyes. These are the facts: The British-based Sky Arts cable channel is scheduled to broadcast a road movie speculating on what might have happened if, as urban legend has it, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando and Michael Jackson, who were all in New York when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, drove together back to Los Angeles.Gene Seymour: White actor Joseph Fiennes will play Michael Jackson in British dramedy. This is an outrageous decision on many levelsHe says Jackson was a real person, unlike James Bond. Suggestions of Bond being played by black actor caused uproar

SOLUTION: So far, it's hard to find anybody willing to speculate as to how Michael Jackson himself would feel about a white _ actor assuming his persona for dramatic purposes.

PROBLEM: Every election candidate should be forced to declare if they plan to take up second jobs outside Parliament, the sleaze watchdog has said. Lord Bew, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, warned trust in politics had been damaged and it would be 'foolish' for politicians to think they could ignore public anger. It comes as plans are being drawn up to curb rowdy behaviour in the House of Commons, with MPs facing bans from debates for heckling and swearing across the chamber. Politicians standing for election in May should declare that they plan to keep second jobs once they reach the Commons, the head of the sleaze watchdog has saidSleaze watchdog Lord Bew says politicians are 'foolish' to ignore angerChairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life calls for changeAll candidates should publish a register of interests, including paid jobsFollows 'cash for access' scandal with Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack StrawLabour draw up plans for yellow and red cards for rowdy MPs in Commons

SOLUTION: Lord Bew expressed frustration that _ had not taken better steps to clean up the system, despite consistent calls by the committee for measures such as a cap on outside earnings, another idea being examined by Labour.

PROBLEM: (CNN) -- The son of Gabon's former president was declared the winner of the country's presidential elections on Thursday, sparking violent protests in some parts of the West African nation. Two men walk by tyres set on fire by opposition supporters in Libreville, Gabon. Voters went to the polls Sunday to elect a successor to President Omar Bongo, who died in June after more than four decades in office. Bongo, 73, was Africa's longest-serving ruler. In a live announcement Thursday on Gabonese television, Interior Minister Jean Francois Ndongou said Ali Bongo received 41.73 percent of the votes in Sunday's election, with former interior minister Andre Mba Obame getting 25.88 percent and main opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou winning 25.22 percent.Ali Bongo, son of Gabon's former president declared the winner of electionOpposition supporters protest outside the French consulate in city of Port-GentilVoters went to the polls on Sunday to elect successor to President Omar Bongo

SOLUTION:
Security forces patrolled the streets in the _ capital of Libreville, where violence broke out in some quarters when the results were released, according to French media reports.