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].

[Q]: Before V. Stiviano's recordings toppled Donald Sterling from ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, she boasted she would be the next Mrs. Sterling. She would pick up envelopes of cash in an alley behind the family's real estate company and told employees at the firm she would one day be their boss. Those predictions seemed like a fantasy on Wednesday as Sterling's wife went after the $3.6 million that she said the younger woman swindled from community property the couple amassed over 60 years of marriage. Scroll down for video Court battle: 'She's been very, very nasty to me, and she's been mean to my husband': Shelly Sterling testified against V. Stiviano in the nonjury trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on WednesdayThe Sterlings are demanding back items worth $3.6 million that they claim Stiviano swindled from them - including cars and a $1.8 million duplexDonald accused Stiviano of befriending a Hispanic bank employee in order to get her name illegally added to a $1 million checkHe said he only intended to loan her a Ferrari and a Bentley, but put them in her name so he wouldn't be liable if she killed somebodySterling's CFO testified that his boss appeared to be cutting checks for Stiviano and trying to make it hard for them to be tracedOther employees and friends of the millionaire told the court that Stiviano informed them she was going to be the next Mrs. Sterling 
 Question:_, 80, said Stiviano, right, hadn't contributed '50 cents' to the $1.8 million duplex now in her name
[A]: Donald Sterling


[Q]: Real Madrid and Barcelona have two of the most talented, and expensively assembled, teams in world football. But who would make a combined XI out of the two squads based, not on reputation, but on current form? Allow me to get ahead of the fury of the comments section. If you're Ancelotti do you pick Ronaldo? Of course you do. Cristiano Ronaldo may be the World Player of the Year, but on current form he doesn't make combined XI Our combined XI, which has no place for Ronaldo, but does feature some of the world's best players Ronaldo hasn't scored a league goal from open play in a month, and Gareth Bale is preferred on the wingReal Madrid travel to the Nou Camp to face Barcelona on SundayBarca are top of the league, one point ahead of their great rivalsCristiano Ronaldo is out of form this year, so misses out on Clasico teamBut Messi, Bale and Suarez make up formidable front three 
 Question:There is also only one player who has scored with a direct free-kick for _ this season... and it isn’t Ronaldo it’s Bale.
[A]: Real Madrid


[Q]: (CNN) -- The deadly clashes that are a fact of daily life in Syria have now bled into Lebanon, where a series of sectarian shootouts this week are raising fears that a period of relative calm for the country may be nearing an end. Syria has dominated Lebanon's political scene for much of its post-independence history -- and while many Lebanese support the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, many others do not. It's too early to tell whether this week's clashes are blips on the radar or the new norm -- but many observers believe the longer Syria's conflict goes on, the more destabilizing it will be for Lebanon.Syria's conflict has spilled into Lebanon, where clashes killed 9 in Tripoli and BeirutLebanon strongly influenced by Syria both politically and militarily since independence in 1943There is evidence Syrian rebels are receiving arms smuggled across the Lebanese borderMany believe Syria's regime is stirring up violence in Lebanon to distract from their own conflict 
 Question:"But they're very conscious of being seen as a destabilizing force in _."
[A]:
Lebanon