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: 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: When the Xia Dynasty came about was written language already in place?.

SOLUTION: Yes.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: He read the telegram again.
Sent 2: In desperation he went back to the long distance booth, but found the line still out of order, and a wire had come giving the details of the damage done by the storm.
Sent 3: It would be several days before communication could be established.
Sent 4: There was no help coming from headquarters, and from the wording of the telegram there seemed to be a reason for their not giving clear details.
Sent 5: He must get a copy of the paper.
Sent 6: Reluctantly he went to the printing office and made known his errand.
Sent 7: Mr. Driggs was delighted to give him the paper--he had it some place, though he very seldom opened any of his exchanges.
Sent 8: He evidently bore Mr. Steadman no ill-will for his plain talk two weeks ago.
Sent 9: With some difficulty he found it, with its wrapper still intact.
Sent 10: It was a loose wrapper, which slipped off and on easily.
Sent 11: Mr. Steadman remarked carelessly that there was an editorial in it to which his attention had been drawn, on hearing which Mr. Driggs turned his head and winked at an imaginary accomplice. 
Question: Did it seem that Mr. Driggs responded negatively to Mr. Steadman's errand?.

SOLUTION: No, he didn't seem to carry any ill-will and was delighted to give him the paper.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: There are more than 30 attorneys in Butler County that volunteer for an organization offering free legal services for low income or elderly households.
Sent 2: Legal Services of Southern Missouri (LSSM) serves 43 counties in this area and is dedicated to ensuring all people, regardless of their income, equal access to legal advice and counsel.
Sent 3: Out of the 43 counties in the LSSM service region, Butler County has the fifth highest number of cases served in 2001 and the third largest number of attorney panel members.
Sent 4: "The Butler County attorneys have really stepped up to the plate to help us represent the poor population in this county," said LSSM Director of Development Sharon Alexander.
Sent 5: "We had approximately 400 cases in Butler County last year."Sent 6: LSSM is funded by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC)- a private, not-for-profit organization.
Sent 7: Created by Congress, LSSM also receives funding from the Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation and local area agencies on aging.
Sent 8: But LSSM credits the attorneys that volunteer their time and skills to representing the underprivileged and elderly for the success of the organization.
Sent 9: Currently, LSSM utilizes the services of 243 private attorneys who provide a minimum of 20 hours of pro bono or two pro bono cases per year.
Sent 10: "Fundamentally, what we're trying to do is provide equal access to justice, for all people - regardless of their economic standing," said LSSM Board Member and volunteer attorney, Fred Hall.
Sent 11: "If a husband knocks his wife down, breaks her jaw or arm - abuses her terribly - he will be picked up and put in jail.
Sent 12: But he's entitled to have a public defender ... Don't you think she's entitled to have a lawyer to get a temporary restraining order from this guy?"Sent 13: LSSM operates like a law firm, but does not charge fees to their clients.
Sent 14: Due to federal guidelines, LSSM does not accept cases concerning criminal, post-criminal, or municipal court matters.
Sent 15: Rather, the attorneys provide pro bono counsel in matters such as protecting victims of spouse or child abuse, protecting individuals and families from loss of housing through illegal eviction or assisting the elderly in disputing Medicaid claim denials.
Sent 16: "One example of a case we recently handled was over in Springfield," Alexander said.
Sent 17: "There was an elderly woman who had some plumbing work done to her home and the work was not up to standards and the cost was above what it should have been ... we were able to help her through our pro bono program.
Sent 18: One local Springfield attorney volunteered to handle the case.". 
Question: What is the example case that LSSM has just recently handled and where did it happen?.

SOLUTION:
Woman had plumbing work done. The work wasn't effienct and it was too costly. In springfield.

