Question:
a boat moving in a river.

What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a 3 out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?

Answer:
Small boat going down a creek.

Question:
Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 15.66 to 1,046.79, its best advance since Oct. 1, when it gained 22.25.

What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a 3 out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?

Answer:
It was the best advance since Oct. 1, when the index gained 22.25.

Question:
The public hearing is the second for the panel created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld under pressure from Congress.

What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a 3 out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?

Answer:
The committee was appointed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld under orders from Congress.