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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 _ .
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(CNN) A Mississippi man was sentenced to 49 years in prison Monday and fined $20,000 for killing his ex-girlfriend because she was transgender, the US Justice Department said. Joshua Vallum, 29, of Lucedale is the first person prosecuted for a federal hate crime in which the victim was targeted for being transgender, the Justice Department said in a news release. Vallum knew Mercedes Williamson was a transgender teenage girl when they began dating, but kept her gender identity secret, prosecutors said. They broke up in 2014 but Vallum decided to kill her in May 2015 because a friend had discovered she was transgender, the Justice Department said.Joshua Vallum pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriendJustice Department: He killed because she was transgender
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He would not have killed _ if she was not transgender, he said.


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Earlier this week, Alberto Salazar released an 11,000-word defence to doping allegations. As part of his defence, Salazar has tried to discredit Steve Magness - a former coach for the Nike Oregon Project - who has given evidence against his old boss. On Thursday night, Magness issued a detailed statement to Sportsmail which can be found below. The claims in the following statement have not been substantiated by Sportsmail. 'Yesterday (Wednesday) Alberto Salazar broke three weeks of silence to respond to the BBC/ProPublica investigation of doping at the Nike Oregon Project. Although Salazar promised he would show that the allegations against him are 'false,' his statements actually confirm what I witnessed and what I told to the BBC/ProPublica reporters in their documentary last month.Alberto Salazar delivered an 11,000-word defence to doping allegationsSalazar tried to discredit former Nike Oregon Project coach Steve MagnessMagness issued a detailed statement to Sportsmail on Thursday night
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In reality, I left the _ under a mutual agreement to terminate my contract, dated June 27, 2012 so that I could pursue other coaching opportunities.


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There are Last-Chance Saloons and then there are bars in which it might be better not to pick a fight. In most boxing eyes Paul Smith Jnr is walking into a beating in California on Saturday night. The eldest of Liverpool’s four fighting brothers has two chances against Andre Ward – slim and none. And as flamboyant promoter Don King is fond of saying: ‘Slim just left town.’ Should Smith do the same? Not when, as a total professional, he has the opportunity to test himself against the best super-middleweight on the planet. Not when, at 32 and with a thoroughly respectable record, he can bring his career to its climax with his third successive fight against a world champion.Brit Paul Smith Jnr fights Andre Ward in Oakland, California on SaturdayLiverpudlian Smith is rated as a massive underdog for the world title fightBut Ward has not fought for 19 months and Smith will fancy his chancesFloyd Mayweather is no closer to announcing his next opponentArgentinian boxer Sergio Martinez retires and will take up career in acting
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Although that period of inactivity - the consequence of promotional disputes and injuries – has deleted him from most pound-for-pound rankings, _ is still widely perceived as one of the top three or four boxers in the world.