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: Eric , a young boy , is excited about his birthday after reading a book and believes that a train will come for him , despite his sister Jill's disbelief .
Sent 2: A few hours later , the train station's control tower wakes up and in the roundhouse , Tillie , a young little blue switcher engine , along with her best bird friend , Chip , wakes up four other trains : Georgia , a kind all-purpose engine , Farnsworth , a stuck-up passenger engine , Jebediah , a worn-out old engine , and Pete , a gruff , burly freight engine .
Sent 3: After the tower assigns Farnsworth and Pete their jobs , Tillie tries to help with the milk train assigned to Jebediah , but the tower insists that she is too small for the job .
Sent 4: Georgia is assigned to pull the birthday train .
Sent 5: A clown named Rollo leads the toys into the train , including Stretch , a basketball player ; Missy , a ballerina ; a Handy Pandy , a panda ; Perky , an elephant ; and Grumpella , a stuffed bird .
Sent 6: During her journey , Georgia breaks down and is taken back to the roundhouse by Doc .
Sent 7: Left behind , Rollo eventually takes Doc's advice of flagging down one of the other engines returning from their daily runs over the mountain .
Sent 8: Farnsworth and Pete turn down their offers to pull the train .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , Tillie asks the tower to rescue the stranded train , but he insists that Tillie will never do the job .
Sent 10: Jebediah turns down his offer to pull the train because of his age , and returns to the roundhouse .
Sent 11: Chip and Tillie sneak past the sleeping tower and pulls the birthday train up a mountain . 
Question: What jobs does Tillie ask the tower to do?.

SOLUTION: Rescue the birthday train.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Speed is an important aspect of motion.
Sent 2: It is a measure of how fast or slow something moves.
Sent 3: To determine speed you must know two things.
Sent 4: First, you must know how far something travels.
Sent 5: Second, you need to know how long it takes to travel that far.
Sent 6: Speed can be calculated using this formula: speed = distance time A familiar example is the speed of a car.
Sent 7: In the U.S., this is usually expressed in miles per hour.
Sent 8: Think about a trip you and your family made in the car.
Sent 9: Maybe the trip covered 120 miles and it took 3 hours.
Sent 10: What was the cars speed?
Sent 11: speed = 120 mi = 40 mi/h 3h The speed of a car may also be expressed in kilometers per hour (km/h).
Sent 12: The SI unit for speed is meters per second (m/s).
Sent 13: This is the unit of measure a scientist would use. 
Question: What is speed?.

SOLUTION: Speed is an important aspect of motion.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Bush administration did not develop new diplomatic initiatives on al Qaeda with the Saudi government before 9/11.
Sent 2: Vice President Cheney called Crown Prince Abdullah on July 5, 2001, to seek Saudi help in preventing threatened attacks on American facilities in the Kingdom.
Sent 3: Secretary of State Powell met with the crown prince twice before 9/11.
Sent 4: They discussed topics like Iraq, not al Qaeda.U.S.-Saudi relations in the summer of 2001 were marked by sometimes heated disagreements about ongoing Israeli- Palestinian violence, not about  Bin Laden.
Sent 5: The confirmation of the Pentagon's new leadership was a lengthy process.
Sent 6: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz was confirmed in March 2001 and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith in July.
Sent 7: Though the new officials were briefed about terrorism and some of the earlier planning, including that for Operation Infinite Resolve, they were focused, as Secretary Rumsfeld told us, on creating a twenty-first-century military.
Sent 8: At the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shelton did not recall much interest by the new administration in military options against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Sent 9: He could not recall any specific guidance on the topic from the secretary.
Sent 10: Brian Sheridan-the outgoing assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict (SOLIC), the key counterterrorism policy office in the Pentagon-never briefed Rumsfeld.
Sent 11: He departed on January 20; he had not been replaced by 9/11.
Sent 12: Rumsfeld noted to us his own interest in terrorism, which came up often in his regular meetings with Tenet.
Sent 13: He thought that the Defense Department, before 9/11, was not organized adequately or prepared to deal with new threats like terrorism.
Sent 14: But his time was consumed with getting new officials in place and working on the foundation documents of a new defense policy, the quadrennial defense review, the defense planning guidance, and the existing contingency plans.
Sent 15: He did not recall any particular counterterrorism issue that engaged his attention before 9/11, other than the development of the Predator unmanned aircraft system.
Sent 16: The commander of Central Command, General Franks, told us that he did not regard the existing plans as serious.
Sent 17: To him a real military plan to address al Qaeda would need to go all the way, following through the details of a full campaign (including the political-military issues of where operations would be based) and securing the rights to fly over neighboring countries.
Sent 18: The draft presidential directive circulated in June 2001 began its discussion of the military by reiterating the Defense Department's lead role in protecting its forces abroad. 
Question: Whose time was consumed with getting new officials in place.

SOLUTION:
Secretary Rumsfeld.

