TASK DEFINITION: Answer the question from the given passage. Your answer should be directly extracted from the passage, and it should be a single entity, name, or number, not a sentence.
PROBLEM: Passage: The Daily Mail newspaper reported in 2012 that the UK government's benefits agency was checking claimants' 'Sky TV bills to establish if a woman in receipt of benefits as a single mother is wrongly claiming to be living alone' – as, it claimed, subscription to sports channels would betray a man's presence in the household. In December, the UK’s parliament heard a claim that a subscription to BSkyB was ‘often damaging’, along with alcohol, tobacco and gambling. Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke was proposing the payments of benefits and tax credits on a 'Welfare Cash Card', in the style of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, that could be used to buy only 'essentials'. Question: What could the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program purchase?

SOLUTION: essentials

PROBLEM: Passage: The needs of soy farmers have been used to justify many of the controversial transportation projects that are currently developing in the Amazon. The first two highways successfully opened up the rainforest and led to increased settlement and deforestation. The mean annual deforestation rate from 2000 to 2005 (22,392 km2 or 8,646 sq mi per year) was 18% higher than in the previous five years (19,018 km2 or 7,343 sq mi per year). Although deforestation has declined significantly in the Brazilian Amazon between 2004 and 2014, there has been an increase to the present day. Question: What happened to the rate of deforestation in the Amazon region of Brazil between 2004 and 2014?

SOLUTION: declined significantly

PROBLEM: Passage: After leaving Edison's company Tesla partnered with two businessmen in 1886, Robert Lane and Benjamin Vail, who agreed to finance an electric lighting company in Tesla's name, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. The company installed electrical arc light based illumination systems designed by Tesla and also had designs for dynamo electric machine commutators, the first patents issued to Tesla in the US. Question: Who designed the illumination systems that Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing installed?

SOLUTION:
Tesla