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 _ .

Q: (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

A: According to _ casting director Pavel Kotov, the show intends to hire American talent for its American-based units.
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Q: (CNN) Zakia and Ali knew theirs was a forbidden love. She was Sunni and ethnically Tajik; he was Shiite and ethnically Hazara -- the Montagues and Capulets. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" So begins, with gloomy prophecy, one of the most famous stories in English literature. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet would take their own lives out of despair. Rod Nordland, a journalist who found Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, says that in that country, the despair all too often comes to an end in a so-called honor killing.Zakia and Ali, a young Afghan couple, stays together despite the chance of Zakia's "honor killing"In the new book "The Lovers," Zakia talks of being courted by Ali's poetry and song

A: _ was cagey at first about accepting Ali's proposal -- she knew the taboo, and danger, in such a marriage.
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Q: Daniel Vettori has tipped a strong response from New Zealand after their thumping 210-run defeat by England at Edgbaston on Tuesday. The Kiwis conceded their highest ever total in one-day internationals as the hosts compiled an imposing 408 for nine, largely thanks to blistering hundreds from Joe Root and Jos Buttler. Root reached his century off 71 balls while Buttler only needed 66 deliveries to get to three figures with the Black Caps all out for 198 in 31.1 overs in return. It was a stark reversal of fortunes in the opener of the five-match series - England were crushed by eight wickets with 226 balls to spare by the same opponents at the World Cup in Wellington earlier this year.Daniel Vettori tips New Zealand to respond after 210-run defeatKiwis conceded their highest ever total in ODIs of 408 runsJoe Root and Jos Buttler starred in England romp at Edgbaston

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'All those guys in the _ team are incredibly experienced so I know they'll bounce back pretty quickly.'
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