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: A chronic shortage of nearly 50,000 lorry drivers across every corner of Britain will cause vital deliveries to shops and businesses to seize up well before Christmas, haulage leaders warned today as they published new figures. The Road Haulage Association is today writing to the Prime Minister David Cameron demanding government intervention to help with the ‘chronic truck driver shortage’, which they argue is having ‘a profound affect’ on the UK’s supply chain. The RHA also said that the economic recovery risks being ‘stalled’ by the delivery driver shortage. ‘There is a national truck driver shortage, estimated to be in the region of 45,000 thousand. And with over 35,000 thousand existing drivers due to retire in the next two years, the situation is deteriorating fast, ‘ the RHA said.The Road Haulage Association said there is a 45,000 driver shortfallIt said the £3,000 cost of training to be a truck driver is a 'serious barrier'It called on the Government to invest £150m in driver training in the budget

A: RHA chief executive Richard Burnett said: ‘The RHA represents _ hauliers who, between them, operate over 100,000 heavy goods vehicles.
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Q: Washington (CNN) Sen. Luther Strange and Roy Moore have one final day of campaigning before Republican voters in Alabama will take to the polls in a GOP primary to decide who they want to run against Democrat Doug Jones in the special election to fill a US Senate seat. Strange, who was appointed by then-Gov. Robert Bentley to finish out the term after Jeff Sessions became attorney general, is running against Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in the GOP primary. Strange is seen as an establishment Republican who has strong support from President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to keep the seat, which Sessions had held for two decades. He has been propped up by more than $9 million in spending from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with McConnell.Roy Moore is running as the anti-establishment RepublicanThis race could determine how future races will play out for RepublicansSen. Luther Strange has the backing of Trump and McConnell

A: In 2014, _ wrote letters to all 50 state governors calling on them to convene a constitutional convention to ban same-sex marriage.
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Q: Brendon McCullum blazed the joint second-highest individual score in world T20 cricket with a brilliant unbeaten 158 as Birmingham Bears beat Derbyshire Falcons by 60 runs in the NatWest T20 Blast at Edgbaston. The New Zealand captain more than lived up to expectations on his home debut, thrilling the Bears' supporters with a thunderous innings from 64 balls that included 13 fours and 11 sixes. That matched McCullum's own best T20 score and only Chris Gayle, with 175 not out in the Indian Premier League, has managed more. His onslaught lifted Birmingham to 242 for two - their highest total in the format and the joint-third highest by any team in English domestic T20.New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum was making his home debutThe Kiwi produced a thunderous innings from 64 balls that included 13 fours and 11 sixesMcCullum's onslaught lifted Birmingham to 242 for two

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_'s 182 all out in reply was a plucky effort but predictably fell short as they had to go for broke from the off.
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