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: For most teenagers, getting through the final years of high school is a tough feat. But for one woman it's been made infinitely more difficult by the fact she's living in a tent under a brdige. Alicia, 19, is studying Year 11 through RMIT University in Melbourne. The teenager has been homeless for three years and is currently living under a bridge in the inner-city, she told The Age. Every morning Alicia, who asked her real name not be published, and her boyfriend start their day at a drop-in centre where they can get a warm breakfast. Then every weekday the teenager commutes into the city for classes, before studying at night at the library, a youth centre or by lamplight in her tent.Alicia, 19, has been living on the streets of Melbourne for three yearsShe currently lives under an inner-city bridge with her boyfriendIs studying to finish Year 11 at RMIT University in MelbourneFirst slept on the street when she was just eight or nine years oldLives off just $360 a week, split between four homeless people 
 Question:'If you can stick at _ (which is tough for most teenagers) from under a bridge, you're as tough as nails.

SOLUTION: Year 11

PROBLEM: Washington (CNN) -- A federal budget compromise that already passed the House cleared a key procedural hurdle on Tuesday in the Senate, increasing the likelihood it will win final Congressional approval this week. President Barack Obama has signaled his support for the plan worked out by the budget committee leaders in each chamber that would guide government spending into 2015 to defuse the chances of another shutdown such as the one that took place in October. Tuesday's vote overcame a Republican filibuster attempt that required 60 votes in the 100-member chamber to proceed on the budget measure. The count was 67-33, with a dozen Republicans joining the 55 Democrats and independents in support of the plan.NEW: A new poll shows public support for the budget deal12 Republicans join Democrats in overcoming a filibuster attemptBill aims to avert another government shutdown as early as mid-JanuaryThe House already passed the compromise budget plan 
 Question:Some Senate _ said before Tuesday's vote that the most important thing for now was to lower the budget deficit, even if only by a small percentage, and prevent further government shutdowns like the 16-day stoppage in October that proved politically damaging to the GOP.

SOLUTION: Republicans

PROBLEM: A Canadian woman whose son died fighting for the Islamic State is now working to stop the extremist group from taking advantage of more vulnerable young men and women in North America. Christianne Boudreau thought her son Damien Clairmont was going to Egypt to study Arabic in 2013, but Canadian authorities later told the Calgary mother that her son had instead gone to Turkey where he crossed the border into Syria to join ISIS. While Damien had become more extreme in his Islamic ideology before he left Canada, Ms Boudreau never imagined her shy and peaceful son would actually become a jihadi.Christianne Boudreau's son Damien Clairmont converted to Islam at the age of 17, after being bullied in high schoolDamien eventually became radicalized and moved to Syria to fight for ISISHe was killed in January 2014 in AleppoMrs Boudreau now helps other families whose children have become radicalized 
 Question:So Ms Boudreau was more relieved than worried when he found solace in _ and started becoming more social again.

SOLUTION:
Islamic