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: Al-Qayyara, Iraq (CNN) Menacing black smoke hangs over the town of al-Qayyara. The air here is poison. Children with blackened hands and soot-stained faces play beneath the toxic plumes. The early afternoon sun is so eclipsed by the haze that day seems like endless twilight. The dark filth coating the landscape and choking residents' lungs comes from oil wells sabotaged and set alight by ISIS in August. Engineers and firefighters have been battling the flames for 100 days now. When CNN first visited al-Qayyara back in early October, they had tackled six fires with nine to go. But the real extent of the damage had yet to be determined.Town of al-Qayyara, south of Mosul, is awash with toxic plumesISIS set oil wells ablaze in bid to hamper Iraqi forces from advancingWhile several battle to quell fires, residents breathe poisonous fumes

SOLUTION: All while the 15,000 residents of al-_ continue to live in an environment they know is damaging their health, potentially for years to come.

PROBLEM: A British tourist has been stranded in a Spanish hospital for 11 days because there were no available NHS beds available in the UK. Retired Chris Carr, 62, from Melksham, Wiltshire, was visiting Benidorm as part of a four-month caravan trip with his wife Sally, 59, when he was rushed to hospital with severe stomach pains. Spanish doctors found he is suffering from a diaphragmatic hernia which is causing a huge twist in his stomach, and said he needed an operation in the UK where he would get the necessary post-operative care. Chris Carr (pictured) was visiting Benidorm as part of a four-month caravan trip with his wife when he was rushed to hospital with severe stomach pains and told he needed an operationChris Carr, 62, was taken to hospital in Benidorm with stomach painsHe suffered a diaphragmatic hernia - causing a huge twist in his stomachHe needs an operation in UK where he can receive post-operative careInsurance company rang UK hospitals but were told there are no free bedsMr Carr has been stuck in a Spanish hospital 11 days while they searchedFollowing campaign he will now be flown to the UK to undergo operationBut all three hospitals have now denied speaking to anybody about Mr Carr

SOLUTION: '_ worked at the university for 35 years or more and I was a midwife for the NHS for 40 years.

PROBLEM: The grim reality of life in Syria is told through the eyes of the down-trodden and oppressed refugees living there in a harrowing new book. Syrian journalist Samar Yazbek has told how people are trapped between ISIS barbarians and president Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime live in constant fear of beheadings and bomb strikes. Samar fled the war-torn country in 2011 after criticising Assad – but sneaked back in three times to get accounts from people living on the front line who have carved out lives among the rubble. She described seeing a girl of around seven with no arms or legs who she saw sat on a chair outside a kiosk in the city of Saraqeb, just seconds before the area was destroyed by an air strike.Journalist Samar Yazbek gave a chilling account of the brutality faced by people living in SyriaShe told how president Bashar al-Assad's troops crushed houses and slaughtered women and children in the city of SaraqebA soldier told her how he joined rebel forces after he said his friend shot in the groin and killed after he refused to rape a childSamar told how she has to steel herself when she sees little fingers in the rubble and has to pull out the bodies of childrenA soldier, crippled from a bullet, told her how he doesn't recognise friends he has to bury after bombings because 'their faces are so mangled'

SOLUTION:
By _'s next visit, the battalion's headquarters had been bombed.