You need to read the given passage and construct a question about the information present in the passage. The question should be answerable from the passage. Most importantly, only those questions are allowed whose answers cannot be determined from a single sentence. Do not generate questions that require only a single sentence to answer. Instead, try to combine two sentences and create a question from that combination. Do not create open-ended questions, i.e., the answers to them cannot be found precisely from the information provided in the passage.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Registration fees for Illinois lawyers could jump as much as $49 a year if lawmakers adopt two separate measures to bolster pro-bono services and support for lawyers with drug and alcohol problems.
Sent 2: The Illinois Supreme Court is pushing for legislation that would allow it to dedicate money raised through the fee hikes to legal services to the poor.
Sent 3: The justices are floating a $42 increase to shore up financing for pro-bono work, as the normal funding mechanism for legal services has fallen short in recent years.
Sent 4: Currently, support for non-profit legal aid groups comes from interest generated on the Lawyers' Trust Fund, which pools clients' money that attorneys hold for such matters as escrow funds.
Sent 5: But low interest rates and a sagging economy mean there is less money being generated.
Sent 6: After hours of discussion, the high court agreed that raising the registration fees would be the best way to address the declining revenues, Chief Justice Moses W. Harrison II said.
Sent 7: The judges were reluctant to raise those fees but eventually decided that supporting probono services was important enough "and lawyers had a responsibility to contribute" to the cause, Harrison said.
Sent 8: Last year, the high court raised the base fee for active attorneys to $180 from $140.
Sent 9: Lawyers in their first three years of practice or who are inactive pay $90, and retired lawyers pay nothing.
Sent 10: Legislation circulated by the high court's lobbyist specifies that the hike would apply to attorneys "paying full annual registration fees."Sent 11: In 2001, there were 57,392 active attorneys in Illinois and 74,311 on the full roll, according to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
Sent 12: The hike would raise roughly $2.4 million.
Sent 13: Last year, interest on the trust fund totaled $4.5 million, but service and handling fees consumed $538,000 of that amount.
Sent 14: This year's returns are projected to be anywhere between $700,000 and $1 million short of that mark, said Ruth Ann Schmitt, the executive director of Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois.
Sent 15: Harrison said the fee hikes are designed only to counter the shortfall in interest income, not add to the total amount available.
Sent 16: "Our legal services are already stretched to the breaking point," Schmitt said.
Sent 17: "We have a tough time raising enough money to properly fund services that our clients need."Sent 18: Neither the Illinois State Bar Association nor The Chicago Bar Association has taken a stance on the proposed hikes.

Answer: Why did the high court raise the base fee for active attorneys to $180 from $140?

Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquestas had been the case in North Africa and Europebut by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-relianceall qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446-1459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After allied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.

Answer: Who owned a fleet of ships in the story?

Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Convicted murderer Seth Baxter awakens chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade .
Sent 2: A videotape informs him that crushing his hands between the presses will release him ; he does so , but the blade still swings down and violently cuts him in half , while someone watches through a hole in the wall .
Sent 3: The scene cuts to Agent Peter Strahm , who kills Jeff Denlon in self-defense and is sealed in the sickroom .
Sent 4: He finds a hidden passage with a tape recorder that warns him to stay in the sickroom , but ignores it .
Sent 5: He is attacked by a pig-masked figure in the passage and awakens with his head sealed in a box slowly filling with water , which he survives by performing a tracheotomy using a pen .
Sent 6: Outside the plant , Detective Mark Hoffman delivers Corbett Denlon to the police and claims they are the only survivors , and is shocked when Strahm is brought out alive as well .
Sent 7: Jill Tuck is met by John Kramer 's attorney , who is administering his will .
Sent 8: She is left a box and a videotape , in which John stresses the importance of the box 's contents .
Sent 9: She opens it with a key hung around her neck and then leaves without disclosing its contents .
Sent 10: In a memorial service held for David Tapp , Steven Sing , Allison Kerry , Eric Matthews , and Daniel Rigg , the five officers killed in action , Hoffman is promoted to detective lieutenant .
Sent 11: He is informed of the death of Agent Lindsey Perez while taking Strahm 's phone and goes to the hospital to meet Strahm , who says that Hoffman 's name was Perez 's last words .

Answer:
Who opens the box?