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: Arkansas' Supreme Court on Friday afternoon stopped any more same-sex marriages in the state, a court spokeswoman said, leaving the legal status of more than 400 gay and lesbian couples who got marriage licenses in limbo. This development stems from 21 couples' legal challenge of Amendment 83 to the Arkansas Constitution, arguing that it violates their federal and state rights of equal protection and privacy. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza ruled in their favor last Friday. But same-sex marriage was back up in the air after the state Supreme Court said Wednesday it couldn't decide whether to grant an emergency stay because Piazza's decision was "not final."A state judge in Arkansas earlier struck down same-sex marriage banArkansas Supreme Court grants a stay, thus preventing more such marriagesStatus of couples who got marriage licenses is unclear

SOLUTION: _, at least, was issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples by Thursday afternoon.

PROBLEM: An extraordinary cache of intimate letters by Lucian Freud, kept secret for more than 70 years, reveals for the first time details of his close relationship with the 1930s poet Stephen Spender. The correspondence was locked away by Spender’s family because it was deemed too revealing about the two men, with strong suggestions of homosexuality between the poet, then in his 30s, and the teenage Freud. Homosexuality at that time was not only taboo, it was illegal. The letters were released by the Spender family following the death in 2010 of the poet’s widow Natasha, who always insisted that her husband’s ‘homosexual phase’ ended with her marriage to him in 1941. They are being sold at Sotheby’s next month for £35,000.Letters were released by Spender's family following the death of his widowExperts say they confirm a homosexual relationship between the two menNow letters are set to be auctioned at Sotherby's next month for £35,000

SOLUTION: _, especially as a young man, was the kind of young man that my father would be incredibly attracted to.

PROBLEM: He’s the bowler who ripped through Alastair Cook and Co the last time they visited the UAE, but now Saeed Ajmal thinks he could be the solution to England’s struggles with spin. Trevor Bayliss’s side were undone by Pakistan’s slow bowlers in their 2-0 series defeat, with 35 of the tourists’ 53 wickets falling to Yasir Shah, Shoaib Malik and Zulfiqar Babar, while their own spinners managed just 20 scalps – at 57.9 runs apiece. Off-spinner Ajmal took 24 at 14.70 during Pakistan’s 3-0 whitewash of England in 2012, but a subsequent five-month ban imposed by the ICC forced him to remodel his action.Saeed Ajmal believes England would greatly benefit from his tutelageHe says Trevor Bayliss's side have nobody who can spin with pacePakistan’s slow bowlers were key in their 2-0 Test series defeat of EnglandYasir Shah, Shoaib Malik and Zulfiqar Babar caused England problemsAjmal says Adil Rashid has been showing signs of huge potential this year

SOLUTION:
They were bowling all over the pitch and giving _’s batsmen lots of half-volleys – this is why they were smashed around the ground.