This task is about writing a correct answer for the reading comprehension task. Based on the information provided in a given passage, you should identify the shortest continuous text span from the passage that serves as an answer to the given question. Avoid answers that are incorrect or provides incomplete justification for the question.

Input: Consider Input: Passage: In a traditional village, the monastery is the centre of cultural life. Monks are venerated and supported by the lay people. A novitiation ceremony called shinbyu is the most important coming of age events for a boy, during which he enters the monastery for a short time. All male children in Buddhist families are encouraged to be a novice (beginner for Buddhism) before the age of twenty and to be a monk after the age of twenty. Girls have ear-piercing ceremonies () at the same time. Burmese culture is most evident in villages where local festivals are held throughout the year, the most important being the pagoda festival. Many villages have a guardian nat, and superstition and taboos are commonplace. Question: What do girls of the village get in comparison the the young male event ?

Output: Girls have ear-piercing ceremonies () at the same time.

Input: Consider Input: Passage: Galicia has a surface area of 29,574 square kilometres (11,419 sq mi). Its northernmost point, at 4347N, is Estaca de Bares (also the northernmost point of Spain); its southernmost, at 4149N, is on the Portuguese border in the Baixa Limia-Serra do Xures Natural Park. The easternmost longitude is at 642W on the border between the province of Ourense and the Castilian-Leonese province of Zamora) its westernmost at 918W, reached in two places: the A Nave Cape in Fisterra (also known as Finisterre), and Cape Tourinan, both in the province of A Coruna. Question: And its southernmost?

Output: Baixa Limia-Serra do Xures

Input: Consider Input: Passage: Before the 1997 war, about 9,000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French; only a fraction of this number remains. Around 300 American expatriates reside in the Congo. Question: Prior to the civil war in '97, how many non-Africans lived in the Republic of the Congo?
Output: about 9,000