TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a question, a context passage, and four options which are terms from the passage. After reading a passage, you will get a brief understanding of the terms. Your job is to determine by searching and reading further information of which term you can answer the question. Indicate your choice as 'a', 'b', 'c', or 'd'. If you think more than one option is plausible, choose the more probable option to help you answer the question.
PROBLEM: Question: Which team that the Texas A&M women's basketball team faced during the SEC Women's Tournament had the best regular season record? Passage:The 2016–17 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team represented Texas A&M University in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The team's head coach was Gary Blair, who is in his fourteenth season at Texas A&M. The team plays their home games at the Reed Arena in College Station, Texas and will play in its fifth season as a member of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 22–12, 9–7 in SEC play to finish in sixth place. They defeated Florida and Missouri before losing to Mississippi State in the semifinals of the SEC Women's Tournament. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, where they defeated Penn in the first round after rallying from 21 points down, before losing to UCLA in the second round.
 Links: a. 2016–17 Florida Gators women's basketball team b. 2017 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament c. 2016–17 Missouri Tigers women's basketball team d. Southeastern Conference

SOLUTION: a

PROBLEM: Question: Were there any famous performers at the music festival McCollum often performed at? Passage:During the mid-1950s McCollum was highly busy performing as a concert soloist and performed with some frequency in operas with the New England Opera Theatre (NEOT). He sang frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductor Charles Munch, often at the Tanglewood Music Festival, performing works like the role of the evangelist in Bach's Johannes Passion (1956). He was also a regular performer with the Dessoff Choirs under conductor Paul Boepple, performing as a tenor soloist in oratorios like Handel's Messiah (1956) and Handel's Israel in Egypt (1957). One work which he performed with frequency during these years was J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor, which he first performed in February 1955 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under conductor Margaret Hillis. He later performed the work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in the summer of 1955 and with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Bethlehem Bach Festival in 1956. In March 1955 he sang Helenus in a lauded production of Berlioz's Les Troyens with the New England Opera Theater opposite Eunice Alberts as Cassandre, Marriquita Moll as Dido, and Arthur Schoep as Aeneas.
 Links: a. Tanglewood Music Festival b. George Frideric Handel c. Johann Sebastian Bach d. Mass in B minor

SOLUTION: a

PROBLEM: Question: In what city did Cimpoi attain the status of head of the Department of Classical Literature of the Institute of History and Literary Theory? Passage:He is employed as editor at the "Moldovan Book" (1974) and "Artistic Literature" (1977-1982), literary secretary at the National Theater (1982-1983) and Lyric Theater "Alexei Mateevici"(1986-1987). Since May 1987 he has been elected secretary of the Steering Committee of the Writers' Union of Moldova and president since September 1991 until 2010. He was deputy of the people of the USSR in Gorbachev's thaw (1989-1990) and then deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (1999-2001). In parallel, he is the head of the Department of Classical Literature of the Institute of History and Literary Theory of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, he obtained his Ph.D. in Philology in 1998, with the thesis "Eminescu, poet of Being" (conductor, Eugen Simion) and teaches at the "Ion Creangă" Pedagogical University in Chişinău. In 1991 he became an honorary member of the Romanian Academy, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (1992), a member of the Writers' Union of Romania (since 1994 elected and member of the board of directors), member of PEN-club, member of the Târgoviştei Writers Society (2005), vice-president of the Cultural League for the Unity of Romanians Abroad, an honorary citizen of Craiova (in 2005, alongside Grigore Vieru, Vasile Tărâţeanu). He is the director of the magazine "Life of Basarabia" and in the collections of publications "Critical copybooks", "Romanian Life", founding president of the "Mihai Eminescu" International Academic Center in Chișinău.
 Links: a. Chișinău b. Academy of Sciences of Moldova c. Mikhail Gorbachev d. Mikhail Gorbachev

SOLUTION:
b