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: "Before, the positive cases were high and the testing levels low," he said. "In Busan four years ago, we had under 1,000 tests and around 10 positive tests, while the number of sports was less and there was no pre-competition testing.

A: were
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Q: Passage: French energy groups Gad de France and Suez won European Union conditional approval on Tuesday for their merger, which would create Europe's second-largest utility and maintain national control of the French power market. The deal would result in a group with a combined market capitalization of nearly 80 billion euros (102.6 billion dollars), putting the new entity behind EDF of France but ahead of E.ON, the German energy giant.

A: won
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Q: Passage: "They are not predicting a major eruption, they are not predicting that people are going to have to move off the island." There are fears that ash and acid rain will continue to fall on homes and food crops, leading to the contamination of water supplies and respiratory problems for inhabitants.

A:
predicting
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