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 _ .

(CNN) On Saturday, January 14, employees at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus received a shocking announcement after evening performances at Orlando and Miami. Representatives of Feld Entertainment, the show's parent company, revealed that the circus would shut down forever in May. Less than 24 hours later, the venerable Big Apple Circus announced that it would sell off its assets in a bankruptcy auction on February 7. When Ringling Bros. and Big Apple Circus announced impending demise within a day of each other, it was hard, in some ways, to believe they had really come to the end of the road. Each circus has faced the threat of death before. The nonprofit Big Apple Circus has weathered bone-thin budgets since its founding in 1977 and it survived the disastrous financial crisis in 2008.Janet M. Davis: Circuses in the 19th century and today are best defined by their ability to adapt to changing social conditionsCirque du Soleil is expanding and 90% of the American population lives within an hour's drive of a circus, Davis writes
According to _ casting director Pavel Kotov, the show intends to hire American talent for its American-based units.

For most parents, their child's birthday party might entail a game of pass the parcel followed by ice cream and jelly, but not for Sophie-May Dickson, 22, who claims she splashed out £2,500 on her daughter's fifth birthday bash. Ponies were hired, a red carpet laid out and a three-tiered crystal-encrusted birthday cake delivered to create a party fit for Princess Bliss Dickson, Sophie-May's oldest daughter. The mother-of-two, from Essex, whose youngest daughter Precious Belle Ruby Rozina, is three, appeared on ITV's This Morning this week to defend her lavish party throwing - and now FEMAIL has an exclusive peek into the bash.Sophie-May Dickson, 22, says she splashed £2,500 on her daughter's partyPrincess Bliss Dickson turned 5 in September and had ponies at her partyDescribing the event, Sophie-May said: 'It felt like her wedding'
_-May started planning the event in January and on Princess's big day in September there was a DJ, an entertainer, a bouncy castle, a three-tiered cake, a sweet buffet - and of course some visiting ponies to entertain.

A former high-class call girl has lifted the lid on how her secret profession servicing the rich and famous left her fearing for her life. Rachael Webster, 43, from Liverpool, spent 15 years working as an escort in London's West End, making up to £3,000 a week working for celebrity clients, including a male model known for his wild party lifestyle, and the brother of an A-List actor. But her customers also included gangsters, criminals and violent thugs, and Rachael believes on several occasions she was lucky not to have been killed. The mother-of-three said: 'At times men did do some really horrendous things to me, absolutely despicable things.Rachael Webster, 43, from Liverpool was a high class escort for 15 yearsClients included celebrities as well as gangsters and violent criminalsOne threatened to put her in a wheelchair and another grabbed her throatHas now written a book about her experiences as a tribute to her mum

At 22 Rachael was a single mother living in a council house with her young daughter while working at a massage parlour in _.