TASK DEFINITION: Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding "that's all we know right now, Mr. President."Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering "How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules. 
Question: What was the Vice president doing when he saw a second plane strike the South Tower and what did the rest of the White House staff do?.

SOLUTION: The Vice President was sitting down to a meeting and the White House staff were about to start 9:00 meetings but ended up monitored the news.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government. 
Question: Where did man get fire and what luxuries did it provide?.

SOLUTION: Capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and kept it alight.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Creed family moves into a new home , close to a road where truckers often drive unsafely .
Sent 2: They befriend their neighbor , Jud Crandall , who tells them about a nearby pet cemetery which was built on Indian burial grounds and is rumored to be haunted .
Sent 3: Later , Louis Creed , working at the University of Maine at Orono health center , treats Victor Pascow , who has been hit by a truck and incurred massive head injuries .
Sent 4: Pascow dies after grabbing Louis , addressing him by name , and uttering a cryptic message .
Sent 5: He also promises to `` come to '' him .
Sent 6: That night , in what is seemingly a dream , Victor visits Louis , warning him about the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery .
Sent 7: Louis wakes up to find his feet covered in dirt .
Sent 8: Church , a cat owned by Louis ' daughter Ellie , is killed by a truck on the road in front of their house while Rachel , Ellie and Gage are in Chicago .
Sent 9: Jud takes Louis to an ancient Micmac Indian burial ground beyond the pet cemetery they visited earlier and buries the cat .
Sent 10: Church is brought back to life , but is an evil shell of himself .
Sent 11: He attacks Louis and reeks of decomposition .
Sent 12: Louis asks if a person was ever buried in the grounds .
Sent 13: Jud replies , `` Christ on His throne , no. .
Sent 14: And whoever would? ''Sent 15: Sometime later , Louis ' young son Gage is killed by a truck on the same road .
Sent 16: Louis considers burying Gage in the burial grounds .
Sent 17: Jud tries to dissuade him from doing so , telling him about a young man from town , Timmy Baterman , who died in service during World War II . 
Question: Where was Gage killed by a truck?.

SOLUTION:
On the road in front of the Creed home.

