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) -- These pictures were taken within one week of each other in the center of Aleppo and show the incredible resilience of some of its residents in the face of Syria's bloody civil war. Photographer Issa Touma's home in the historic area of Aleppo has been badly damaged by gunfire. Yet, amid the crossfire between opposition and government forces, Touma is still organizing the international photography festival he holds every year. Touma, who owns a gallery in Aleppo, has been running the exhibition for 11 years and was determined that the show would continue despite fighting reaching the center of the city on August 19. The festival was due to open on September 15.Civil war reached center of Syria's second city one month before photo festival due to startOrganizer Issa Touma's own home was destroyed in gun fighting11th annual photo festival continued on smaller scale despite fighting

A: "All around _ is war and more and more people are coming to the center."
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Q: Yet again, the New England Patriots did their jobs. Well. None more so than Tom Brady, who threw 19 consecutive completions - a franchise record - and four touchdown passes as the Super Bowl champions began the new NFL season in ominous fashion. All eyes were on the 38-year-old, who last week saw his four-match ban for the Deflategate saga quashed by a US district judge. Now in his 16th season, he showed all of his nous, picking apart a naive Steelers secondary to crank up the party atmosphere at a partisan Foxborough. Protected well by an unfamiliar offensive line featuring three rookies, Brady stuck to his faithful targets.Rob Gronkowski caught three touchdowns as the Super Bowl-winners won the NFL season openerBrady connected with another tight end, Scott Chandler, as the Pats eased past the depleted SteelersNBC announced that Steelers coaches picked up Patriots' radio broadcast in their headsets during the first quarterAntonio Brown made a ridiculous catch, reeling in the ball despite tight coverage from Super Bowl hero Malcolm ButlerNFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was not present at Foxborough in the wake of the Deflategate saga

A: And there was _, shaking off two-man coverage to haul in Brady's perfectly weighted pass.
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Q: Washington (CNN) Sen. Marco Rubio, a longtime hawk on Syria, praised the US airstrike on a Syrian airfield days after a chemical attack on innocents attributed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Following news that President Donald Trump had green-lit the US action, Rubio said Thursday on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that Russia could not fairly criticize the military strike because Russia backed Assad -- who is accused of perpetrating the attack on his own people. "They have no standing to say anything about this," Rubio said of the Russians. He said that the move doesn't just send a message, but amounts to a "significant degrading" of Assad's ability to carry out chemical attacks.Rubio said Russians had put themselves into harm's wayHe said the strikes indicated a firm US stance against Assad's reign

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"If the Russians are there on the ground assisting _ in the commission of these heinous crimes -- war crimes -- they should answer for that," Rubio said.
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