TASK DEFINITION: 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].
PROBLEM: 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.

SOLUTION: Real Madrid

PROBLEM: Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said. Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue's announcement came shortly after the five men and five women left a hearing at the prosecutor's office. Under Haitian law, anyone accused of kidnapping a child is not eligible for bail, the attorney general's office said. Conviction on the kidnapping charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; the criminal association charge carries a penalty of three to nine years, according to a former justice minister.10 Americans charged with kidnapping, criminal associationMissionaries denied bail because kidnapping charges involve childrenMissionaries say they were trying to help children leave countryHaitian government says group was trying to kidnap children 
 Question:He expressed gratitude for the work of the vast majority of _ who have helped in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake that he said killed at least 212,000 people.

SOLUTION: Americans

PROBLEM: A Facebook prank in which a man trolls his racist, xenophobic, and homophobic 'friend' by commenting on every single one of the guy's posts and calling him out for his ignorant views has taken the internet by storm - likely because everyone can relate to seeing these types of comments in their news feeds. In the amusing series of exchanges, which the man behind the hoax have admitted he made up to mock the current political firestorm among conservatives and liberals, a user named 'Robert Graves' relentlessly baits his ultra-conservative friend, 'Brendan Sullivan', by repeatedly mocking his offensive posts. 'Can't believe Kim Davis story has disappeared. She stood up for what she believed in. But now gay marriage has been forced upon this great nation,' Brendan wrote in one post, to which Robert responded: 'Why do you care so much? Worrying about what a couple of gay dudes do in the privacy of their own homes in about the gayest thing a guy can do.'A user named 'Robert Graves' relentlessly baited his ultra-conservative friend, 'Brendan Sullivan', by repeatedly mocking his offensive postsTheir fake exchanges caused a stir on the internet because nearly everyone can relate to having an ignorant Facebook friend like 'Brendan'The prankster came clean about the hoax today, saying he fabricated it to make fun of the political firestorm between liberals and conservatives 
 Question:I must say, that is a grading scale like no other I have seen before,' wrote _.

SOLUTION:
Robert Graves