TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will use your knowledge about language (and common sense) to determine what element the marked number refers to. The numbers are marked with two underlines around them, like: _ number _. Your answer should be chosen from the given text, and should not contain other words.
PROBLEM: Francie:  No , no , no . We need a professional . We need a hit man . If there 's one , there are a _ thousand _ . Rats breed hourly .

SOLUTION: Rats

PROBLEM: Cassander:  Would you say the love between Achilles and Patroclus is a corrupting _ one _ ?
Aristotle: When men lie together in lust , it is a surrender to the passions and does nothing for the excellence in us . Nor does any other excess , Cassander , jealousy among them . But when men lie together , and knowledge and virtue are passed between them that is pure and excellent . When they compete to bring out the good , the best in each other this is the love between men that can build a city - state and lift us from our frog pond .

SOLUTION: love

PROBLEM: Jeff:  Its like a feedback loop . You 're somewhere quiet . There 's people . Its a solemn occasion - say , a wedding . No - it 's a minutes silence for someone who 's died . The minute is ticking away ... tick tock tick tock ... and suddenly this thought pops into your head - The worst thing you can do in a minute silence is laugh . And you almost do , as an automatic reaction . But then , you think how awful it would have been if you HAD laughed , and you almost laugh again , only its a bigger laugh . But , then you think how funny it would have been if you 'd laughed that bigger laugh , but this time the laugh is an enormous laugh . Let this _ one _ out and you get whiplash ! So you 're standing there , in this quiet room , shoulders going like you 're drilling the road , and what do you think of the situation ? Dear Christ ! You think its funny !

SOLUTION:
laugh