In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.

Q: Passage: Japan's national beach soccer team became the second Group A team to qualify for the quarter-finals of the sport's World Cup, held on Copacabana beach in Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro, though the team lost 5-8 to Poland on Tuesday. Japan, the United States and Poland are equal on points, each with one win and two losses.

A: became
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Q: Passage: Discovery and its seven-member crew blasted off last Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the first nighttime liftoff in four years. Reiter is to return with Discovery in a landing scheduled next Thursday.

A: blasted
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Q: Passage: He told N24 Sat1 television: "Iran openly, explicitly and publicly threatens to wipe Israel off the map. "Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as France, America, Russia and Israel?"

A:
told
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