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].

Q: President Barack Obama gave Pope Francis a box of seeds as a gift, a fitting token as their first-ever meeting provided a fresh start of sorts between the administration and Catholic leadership after years of strained relations. "These, I think, are carrots," Obama told the Pontiff, showing him a pouch from the box, which was made from timber from the first cathedral to open in the United States, in Baltimore. The Pope gave the President two medallions -- one symbolizing the need for peace and solidarity between the two hemispheres -- and a copy of "Evangelii Gaudium," or "The Joy of the Gospel." The book was penned by the Pope and calls for a new era of evangelization and a renewed focus on the poor.The meeting is called a step toward smoothing tensions with CatholicsAbortion and Obamacare mandates on contraception are areas of disagreementOne place for common ground: the plight of immigrants and the poorPope Francis' popularity could give President Obama a small bump in the polls 
 Question:"One of the things that would delight _ is if some of that popularity would rub off.

A: Barack Obama
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Q: Washington (CNN) As the Senate prepares to vote this week on Neil Gorsuch's nomination, it's unclear yet whether Republicans will have enough votes to end an expected Democratic filibuster. Republicans, who have a 52-48 majority, need a total of eight Democrats to get to 60 -- the critical number required to end the filibuster. If they don't reach 60, they can still get around that filibuster, but it would require taking a highly controversial step to change the Senate rules, a move also known as the nuclear option. RELATED: Here's where Republicans stand on the nuclear option Republicans already have three Democrats who will vote with them to end the filibuster, so they need five more of the remaining eight undecided Democrats -- as of Sunday -- to do the same and reach that 60 number.Republicans need at least give more Democrats to help them confirm Neil Gorsuch under current rulesThe GOP has three Dems, but they've only got nine undecideds left to choose from as of Sunday 
 Question:Here's a look at the nine undecided _ and what they've said recently about Gorsuch:.

A: Democratic
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Q: (CNN) The images from Aleppo, Idlib and Syria's border with Turkey can be described in one word: despair. Tens of thousands of people have fled the relentless bombing and shelling that has paved the way for dramatic battlefield gains by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and its allies. Hundreds of thousands more remain trapped, awaiting their fate with trepidation. In the space of a few weeks, the Syrian battlefield has been transformed, the balance of forces pulverized and the prospects for peace talks -- already dark -- virtually extinguished. Another tide of displaced civilians converge on the Turkish border, trapped by the advance of regime forces.In the space of a few weeks, the Syrian battlefield has been transformedThe Assad regime has severed the main road from Aleppo to the Turkish borderA defining battle for Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war, seems imminent 
 Question:In the process, senior rebel commanders have been killed in Homs, _ and Aleppo provinces.

A:
Idlib
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