I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "The tide-predicting machine invented by Sir William Thomson in 1872 was of great utility to navigation in shallow waters. It used a system of pulleys and wires to automatically calculate predicted tide levels for a set period at a particular location."?
Ans: What time frame was it when it become easier for people to get around in water that wasn't deep?

I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "These 4G languages are less procedural than 3G languages. The benefit of 4GL is that it provides ways to obtain information without requiring the direct help of a programmer. Example of 4GL is SQL."?
Ans: The latter version of these languages are more fluid in the official way they function?

I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "Weeks after ending the Sex Pistols, Lydon formed the experimental group Public Image Ltd and declared the project to be "anti music of any kind". Public Image and other acts such as the Pop Group and the Slits had begun experimenting with dance music, dub production techniques and the avant-garde, while punk-indebted Manchester acts such as Joy Division, The Fall and A Certain Ratio developed unique styles which drew on a similarly disparate range of influences across music and modernist literature. Bands such as Scritti Politti, Gang of Four and This Heat incorporated Leftist political philosophy and their own art school studies in their work."?
Ans: Lydon's previous band was called what?

I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "From roughly 115 to 60 BC, Han forces fought the Xiongnu over control of the oasis city-states in the Tarim Basin. Han was eventually victorious and established the Protectorate of the Western Regions in 60 BC, which dealt with the region's defense and foreign affairs. The Han also expanded southward. The naval conquest of Nanyue in 111 BC expanded the Han realm into what are now modern Guangdong, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam. Yunnan was brought into the Han realm with the conquest of the Dian Kingdom in 109 BC, followed by parts of the Korean Peninsula with the colonial establishments of Xuantu Commandery and Lelang Commandery in 108 BC. In China's first known nationwide census taken in 2 AD, the population was registered as having 57,671,400 individuals in 12,366,470 households."?
Ans: What BC year did Han forces begin fighting the Xiongnu in order to dominate the oasis city-states in the Tarim Basin?