TASK DEFINITION: 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 _ .
PROBLEM: (CNN) Senate Democrats are vowing to stall action on eight of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees tasked with carrying out his economic, law enforcement and regulatory agenda, a senior Democratic aide told CNN Monday. If carried through, the threat that could delay confirming the President-elect's choices for months. Those targeted include secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, attorney general pick Jeff Sessions and health and human services secretary hopeful Tom Price. Democrats warn if they don't get the nominees' required background information and financial records and have adequate time to review them before confirmation hearings are held, they'll drag out confirmation votes with a series of procedural maneuvers.Republicans are already planning confirmation hearings from Donald Trump's CabinetDemocrats can take procedural steps to slow the process down to a crawl

SOLUTION: "When President Obama was elected, Republicans and _ worked together and expeditiously to carefully consider his nominees.

PROBLEM: Rome (CNN) The world as we know it could come to an end this Sunday. Or it could be just another day. It depends on whom you talk to. This weekend, Italians go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether or not the country should amend its 1948 constitution. The referendum is the brainchild of Matteo Renzi, Italy's energetic, 41-year-old Prime Minister. His intention is to defang the upper house of the Italian Parliament, the Senato, by cutting its numbers from 315 to 100, thus reducing its powers dramatically, making it more of a consultative assembly. Yes, if you read to the end of the previous paragraph, you'll probably agree it sounds dull as dust. But, in the eyes of some, the consequences of a "No" vote could be catastrophic.Italians prepare to vote in constitutional referendumReforms would reduce number of senators in upper house of parliament, making it easier to pass lawsCritics say changes would get rid of an important check on the lower house's power

SOLUTION: By allowing the cabinet to push through legislation in a reasonable time frame, _ would become more efficient, productive and prosperous while simultaneously becoming less bureaucratic and bound up in red tape.

PROBLEM: London (CNN) British police are preparing for "enormous and spectacular" potential attacks on the UK as ISIS moves into its "next natural phase," Britain's senior counterterrorism officer said Monday. Mark Rowley, assistant commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, said that in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, ISIS had moved on from a "narrow focus on police and military as symbols of the state, to something much broader." "You see a terrorist group that has big ambitions for enormous and spectacular attacks, not just the types that we've seen foiled to date," he said, citing as another example the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268.UK's top counterterror officer says ISIS is focused on spectacular attacks against Western way of lifeHe says his comments do not refer to a specific known plot, but a general threat profile

SOLUTION:
The current threat level for international terrorism in the _ remains severe, meaning an attack is "highly likely."