TASK DEFINITION: You are given a background paragraph that describes one or more causal or qualitative relationships such as a relationship in economics or a scientific law and a story that makes use of the concepts or the relationship described in the provided paragraph. You need to come up with a question about the story that requires an understanding of the relationship described in the background paragraph. The generated question should not be answerable without both the background and story. Write a question about the story that requires a relationship in the background paragraph to answer. Check whether your question requires both the background paragraph and the story to answer. If your question can be answered by only one of these, try to rewrite your question so that it requires both. Note that "flipping" a word in the question can give rise to a new question where the answer will be different from the original question. Often, "flipping" a word gives rise to flipping the direction of the relationship, for example, from "increase" to "decrease."
PROBLEM: Background Paragraph: In exercises such as weight lifting, skeletal muscle contracts against a resisting force (see Figure below ). Using skeletal muscle in this way increases its size and strength. In exercises such as running, the cardiac muscle contracts faster and the heart pumps more blood. Using cardiac muscle in this way increases its strength and efficiency. Continued exercise is necessary to maintain bigger, stronger muscles. If you don’t use a muscle, it will get smaller and weaker—so use it or lose it. 
Story: Michael has become bored with his passive life style, and has decided to take up weight lifting as a hobby. He begins to exercise with weights several times a week. Michael's brother, Robert, isn't as motivated as Michael though. Robert decides to continue being mostly inactive and only exercises with weights every couple of months.

SOLUTION: Who will increase the size of their muscles less?

PROBLEM: Background Paragraph: Storing large volumes of data – When storing XML to either file or database, the volume of data a system produces can often exceed reasonable limits, with a number of detriments: the access times go up as more data is read, CPU load goes up as XML data takes more power to process, and storage costs go up. By storing XML data in Fast Infoset format, data volume may be reduced by as much as 80 percent. 
Story: Ian had a busy day storing XML. At 4 PM, he stored 11100 Gigabytes to the database. At 5 PM, he stored 22200 Gigabytes to the database. At 6 PM, he stored 33300 Gigabytes to the database. At 7 PM, he got dinner. At 8 PM, he stored 44400 Gigabytes to the database. At 9 PM, he stored 55500 Gigabytes to the database. At 10 PM, he went to sleep to finish storing XML in the morning.

SOLUTION: What time did storage costs go up:  4 PM or 10 PM?

PROBLEM: Background Paragraph: Storing large volumes of data – When storing XML to either file or database, the volume of data a system produces can often exceed reasonable limits, with a number of detriments: the access times go up as more data is read, CPU load goes up as XML data takes more power to process, and storage costs go up. By storing XML data in Fast Infoset format, data volume may be reduced by as much as 80 percent. 
Story: Robin had a busy day storing XML. At 5 AM, he stored 220 Gigabytes to the database. At 6 AM, he stored 330 Gigabytes to the database. At 7 AM, he stored 440 Gigabytes to the database. At 8 AM, he got breakfast. At 9 AM, he stored 550 Gigabytes to the database. At 10 AM, he stored 660 Gigabytes to the database. At 11 AM, she went to sleep to finish storing XML later that day.

SOLUTION:
What time did storage costs go up:  10 AM or 11 AM?