Part 1. Definition
You are given a paragraph, with numbered sentences, and a question. Write the numbers of the sentences needed to answer the given question. Separate multiple sentence numbers with a comma (", "). E.g. "1, 2" would be the correct response if Sent 1 and Sent 2 are needed to answer the given question (do not include sentences that contain no information that is necessary to answer the question). Sort the sentence numbers in an increasing order (i.e., '1, 2', instead of '2, 1'). Your answer should not contain anything than the sentence numbers separated by a comma (e.g. '1, 2, 3, 4'). The given question requires more than one sentence to answer. So, your answer must contain at least one comma (", ").
Part 2. Example
Paragraph- Sent 1: A Republican bid to keep the government open past Friday includes no new money for the construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to several congressional aides familiar with ongoing talks.
Sent 2: GOP leaders submitted the new offer Tuesday afternoon in an effort to appease Democrats, whose votes are needed to avert a shutdown of federal agencies, several House and Senate aides said.
Sent 3: However, Republicans also insisted on increases in border security and defense spending, including money to repair existing fencing and new surveillance technology to patrol the nearly 2,000-mile border.
Sent 4: Democrats have indicated that they would support such appropriations so long as no money goes toward an actual wall.
Question: Who has to be appeased to keep the government open?.
Answer: 1, 2.
Explanation: The question is: Who has to be appeased to keep the government open? The phrase "appease Democrats" is mentioned in Sent 2, about accepting offer that is mentioned in Sent 1 to "keep the government open". So, Sent 1 and Sent 2 are the sentences needed to answer this question.
Part 3. Exercise
Paragraph- Sent 1: The Meiji Restoration: In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.
Sent 2: Edo was renamed Tokyo ("Eastern Capital"), and Mitsuhito took over the Tokugawa castle as his palace.
Sent 3: But important though the resuscitated imperial authority undoubtedly was, the real power under the restoration known as Meiji ("Enlightened Rule") was in the hands of a new generation of forward-looking administrators, who set about abolishing the ancient feudal apparatus in favor of a modern government based on merit rather than ancestry.
Sent 4: They emphasized the need to acquire Western military and industrial skills and technology with which to confront the West itself and eliminate unfair trade tariffs and other unjust aspects of the foreign treaties.
Sent 5: Agriculture, commerce, and traditional manufacturing were expanded to provide a sound economic base for investment in the modern technology of textiles and other industries.
Sent 6: Shipbuilding and weapons manufacture were already under way; railways and telegraph lines quickly followed.
Sent 7: And to show just how fast Japan's new rulers were catching on, two punitive expeditions were launched against Korea and China in the grand manner of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy.
Sent 8: There was an inevitable reaction to rapid Westernization.
Sent 9: Traditional Japanese theater, the tea ceremony, ikebana flower arrangement, and the old martial arts all came back into favor.
Sent 10: In 1890 an important imperial edict on education was issued, promoting Asian (that is, Chinese and Japanese) values in culture and stressing loyalty to the emperor and general harmony.
Sent 11: If the singing in school of military songs such as "Come, Foes, Come!
Sent 12: " or "Though the Enemy Be Tens of Thousands Strong" seems excessively belligerent today, we should not forget jingoistic attitudes in Europe and America at the time.
Sent 13: Japan made a dramatic debut on the international stage, with military actions against China and Russia.
Sent 14: The 1894 Sino-Japanese War for control of the Korean markets and the strategic region of southern Manchuria was a triumph for Japan's modernized army over China's larger but much less well-organized forces.
Sent 15: More impressive still was Japan's success against the powerful war machine of Czarist Russia (19041905), beginning with a surprise nighttime attack on the Russian fleet, to be repeated some years later at Pearl Harbor.
Sent 16: The West was forced to accept Japan's occupation of southern Manchuria and the annexation of Korea in 1910.
Sent 17: In just 40 years, Japan had established itself as a viable world power.
Question: What successes did Japan achieve in terms of military wins and aggregated land occupation?.
Answer:
15, 16.