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: A couple from Indiana barely escaped with their lives after being trapped in their bedroom for more than half an hour as flames and smoke tore through their home last Saturday morning. In a panicked phone call to 911, Pam Price and her husband, Tom, from Muncie near Indianapolis called the emergency services saying: 'The fire people just got to our house and we're stuck on the second floor. We can't get out.' The inferno which began started in the couple's garage and Tom went downstairs to check it out. By the time he got back upstairs to fetch his wife, it was too late for the Ball State University professor to get back downstairs and out the front door.Tom and Pam Price were trapped in an upstairs bedroom of their homeFirefighters attempted a rescue but it was too dangerous and had to leaveAs floor collapsed, Mrs Price made two 911 calls, hanging up each timeA final third call convinced firefighters to make another resuceThe couple were pulled out alive, virtually unharmed without a single burnNeighbors are in disbelief and a calling it 'a miracle' 
 Question:Please help us,' _ panted in response, as choking, thick black smoke began to fill the air.

SOLUTION: Pam Price

PROBLEM: Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Morgan Schneiderlin from Southampton taking the club's summer spending towards £80million. The France midfielder, who wanted to leave St Mary's last summer, joins Old Trafford in a deal worth £25m to end one of the summer's longest running transfer sagas. The 25-year-old has signed a four-year deal with an option for a fifth and joins Bastian Schweinsteiger, who was also announced on Monday, Matteo Darmian and Memphis Depay as the club's other big-money arrivals ahead of the new season. 'I am delighted to be a Manchester United player,' Schneiderlin told manutd.com. 'Once I learned that United were interested in signing me, it was a very easy decision to make.Morgan Schneiderlin has joined Manchester United from SouthamptonThe midfielder completed his £25million move to Old Trafford on MondayHe joins Bastian Schweinsteiger in signing for Louis van Gaal's sideCLICK HERE to see how Manchester United could line up next season 
 Question:United had been in discussions with Southampton for several weeks about _ as the south coast club held out for as much money as possible.

SOLUTION: Morgan Schneiderlin

PROBLEM: There was an air of confidence, arrogance even, about the leader of Russia’s World Cup bid on the eve of the now infamous FIFA vote in Zurich in 2010. At the time, some observers thought Alexei Sorokin was resigned to failure, such was his apparent insouciance. But Sorokin believed he could beat his main rivals, the English among them, and so it proved. Fast forward four-and-a-half years and the Russian, who speaks flawless English with an American accent, is said to be more nervous about delivering a successful World Cup. The problem is the collapse of the Russian economy, and a potential bill of £4billion just to build the 12 stadiums on time, with an estimated total bill of double that amount. Earlier this year only one venue had been completed, with Sorokin said to be telling sponsors the situation had become a major concern.Russia was awarded the 2018 World Cup by FIFA in December 2010Vladimir Putin assured Sepp Blatter assured Russia's economic troubles would not impact on the tournamentHowever, it emerged the Russian federation was struggling to pay national team coach Fabio CapelloPutin knows how valuable the World Cup can be for the Russian economy 
 Question:This came against the backdrop of conflict between the state and the _ oligarchs who had promised to help finance building the stadiums before the value of the ruble plummeted.

SOLUTION:
Russia