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]: Arkansas' Supreme Court on Friday afternoon stopped any more same-sex marriages in the state, a court spokeswoman said, leaving the legal status of more than 400 gay and lesbian couples who got marriage licenses in limbo. This development stems from 21 couples' legal challenge of Amendment 83 to the Arkansas Constitution, arguing that it violates their federal and state rights of equal protection and privacy. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza ruled in their favor last Friday. But same-sex marriage was back up in the air after the state Supreme Court said Wednesday it couldn't decide whether to grant an emergency stay because Piazza's decision was "not final."A state judge in Arkansas earlier struck down same-sex marriage banArkansas Supreme Court grants a stay, thus preventing more such marriagesStatus of couples who got marriage licenses is unclear
[A]: _, at least, was issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples by Thursday afternoon.


[Q]: This is the fraudulent Do Not Resuscitate note which exposed a wife's plot to poison her elderly husband on Christmas Day - after she spelled 'dignity' incorrectly. Jacqueline Patrick tried to murder her husband Douglas by slipping anti-freeze into his festive cherry Lambrini as they sat down for dinner on December 25, 2013. The 54-year-old, from Gipsy Hill, south London, was so desperate to ensure he was killed that she handed a typed DNR note to paramedics, claiming it had been written by her 72-year-old husband. But Mrs Patrick was rumbled when detectives realised the word 'dignity' had been spelled incorrectly. When they tested her by asking how the word was spelled, she penned it 'dignaty' - the same as on the note.Jacqueline Patrick, 54, slipped anti-freeze into husband Douglas's drinkShe wrote Do Not Resuscitate note which she claimed was from husbandPolice rumbled Mrs Patrick because word 'dignity' was spelled incorrectlyShe has admitted attempted murder while daughter Katherine, 21, admitted inciting another to administer a noxious substance
[A]: 'He said in his statement that _ has been subject to domestic abuse which has been significant and serious over the 26 years of this marriage.


[Q]: London (CNN) -- Despite Turkey's shelling of Syria, Middle East expert Fawaz Gerges says neither side wants an escalation of a conflict that has the potential to spill over into a regional war that would be extremely difficult to end. It is important to stress at the outset that we do not know if the shells that landed on Turkish border towns, killing at least five people, were ordered by Bashar al-Assad's government; all we know is the shelling came from the area where Syrian positions had been firing at rebels. Syria has admitted its shelling killed Turkish civilians, has apologized, and has promised that the incident will not be repeated, Turkey's deputy prime minister says. Syria's information minister has pledged an investigation into how and why the shell came to be fired at Turkey.Syrian shells hit towns across the border in Turkey, killing at least fiveSyria apologizes for incident, says it will not be repeatedFawaz Gerges says neither side wants Syria's civil war to spread across region
[A]:
The big point is that the Assad regime is desperately trying to prevent outside military intervention in its war-torn country, and does not want to provide a pretext for _ to do so, knowing that it would be disastrous.