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 _ .

Q: (CNN) Another set of Capitol Hill hearings brought more pain for President Donald Trump Tuesday, as former CIA Director John Brennan told lawmakers there was clear contact between Trump campaign aides and Russian operatives. At almost the same time, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said he would be willing to discuss later whether Trump leaned on him to push back against Russia reports. RELATED: Calculating or naive? Trump caught in cloud of Russia probe revelations Here are the top five things we learned. 1. The former head of the CIA saw evidence Russian operatives were trying to cultivate Trump campaign aidesFormer CIA Director John Brennan testified before the House intelligence committeeDirector of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified at the Senate armed services panel

A: _ responded: "I would say it was not an accurate portrayal of my statement."
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Q: Greece is threatening to seize property, land and businesses belonging to Germany if Berlin does not agree to compensate it for the Nazi occupation of the Second World War. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has demanded Germany pay more than £112billion in reparations. He said previous payments did not cover demands for destroyed infrastructure, compensation for war crimes and the return of a forced loan to the Nazis. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who says that Germany owes his country compensation worth hundreds of billions of euros due to the Nazi occupation during the Second World War In an emotive address to his parliament he spoke of his government pursuing its ‘duty to history’ and the people who ‘fought and gave their lives to defeat Nazism’. Germany angrily dismissed the demands yesterday, saying it had paid reparations to Greece.Greece has threatened Germany saying it will seize its property and landComes as Athens and EU reach a stand-off over negotiations on debt crisisGreek Prime Minister says Germany owes his country war compensationAlexis Tsipras adds Angela Merkel owes his country up to 332 billion eurosBut Germany has dismissed the demands saying reparations have already been solved

A: A spokesman for _ chancellor Angela Merkel said the issue had been ‘legally and politically resolved’ at that time and during the talks which led to German reunification in 1990.
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Q: (CNN) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed reports of last week's chemical attack as "100% fabrication," an assertion at odds with numerous eyewitness accounts, independent analysis and even the explanation given by its strongest ally, Russia. In an interview with the AFP news agency, conducted under restrictions imposed by the Syrian government at the presidential palace in Damascus, Assad claimed the reported details of what happened were not credible because their source was al-Qaeda's former affiliate in Syria, Nusra Front. He suggested that photographs showing children who had died in the attack on a rebel-held town in Idlib province, which provoked revulsion around the world, were staged. The entire incident was "fabricated" and "unconvincing," Assad claimed.Bashar al-Assad: "We have never used our chemical arsenal in our history"Assertions contradicted by eyewitness accounts and independent analysis

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Even _'s staunch ally, Russia, accepts that the deaths were caused by chemical weapons.
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