TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you need to write an incorrect answer to the given question. Along with the question, you are also given the correct answer(s) and the associated paragraph. An incorrect answer should be closely related to the content of the paragraph and/or the question but will not truthfully answer the question. Your incorrect answers should be similar to the given correct answer such that it will pose a challenge for students to distinguish the two. A good incorrect answer should prevent those who skip the paragraph from answering the question. The incorrect answer should not be trivial, in the sense that they should not be easily eliminated without reading the paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Here the omnibus came up, and I rode back to Manchester.
Sent 2: The whole conversation took up very little more time than it will take to read it; but I thought it worth recording, as characteristic of the people now suffering in Lancashire from no fault of their own.
Sent 3: I know the people well.
Sent 4: The greatest number of them would starve themselves to that degree that they would not be of much more physical use in this world, before they would condescend to beg.
Sent 5: But starving to death is hard work.
Sent 6: What will winter bring to them when severe weather begins to tell upon constitutions lowered in tone by a starvation diet--a diet so different to what they have been used to when in work?
Sent 7: What will the 1s.
Sent 8: 6d.
Sent 9: a-head weekly do for them in that hard time?
Sent 10: If something more than this is not done for them, when more food, clothing, and fire are necessary to everybody, calamities may arise which will cost England a hundred times more than a sufficient relief--a relief worthy of those who are suffering, and of the nation they belong to--would have cost.
Sent 11: In the meantime the cold wings of winter already begin to overshadow the land; and every day lost involves the lives, or the future usefulness, of thousands of our best population.
Question: Why were the people of Lancashire suffering?.

SOLUTION: Because of the high taxes they paid.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: We need natural resources for just about everything we do.
Sent 2: We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy.
Sent 3: We even need them to have fun.
Sent 4: Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources.
Sent 5: Can you think of other ways we use natural resources?
Sent 6: Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable.
Sent 7: Others are not.
Sent 8: It depends, in part, on how we use them.
Question: Some natural resources are renewable others are not, in part depending on.

SOLUTION: How much of them exist.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Rivers flowing over gentle slopes move more slowly.
Sent 2: They move much more slowly than a mountain stream.
Sent 3: These slow moving streams create different types of features than mountain streams.
Sent 4: Slow moving water erodes the sides of their channels more than the bottom.
Sent 5: Also, large curves in the stream form.
Sent 6: These curves are called meanders.
Sent 7: Meanders are caused by erosion and deposition.
Sent 8: Remember, faster moving water causes erosion more quickly.
Sent 9: Slower moving water erodes material more slowly.
Sent 10: If water is moving slowly enough, the sediment being carried may settle out.
Sent 11: This settling out, or dropping off, of sediment is deposition.
Sent 12: The curves are called meanders because they slowly wander over the land.
Sent 13: As meanders erode from side to side, they create a floodplain.
Sent 14: This is a broad, flat area on both sides of a river.
Sent 15: Eventually, a meander may become cut off from the rest of the river.
Sent 16: This forms an oxbow lake.
Question: True or false. Very fast moving water causes deposition.

SOLUTION:
True.