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    Probably The Most Recognized Board Game Around The World Is The Game of Monopoly

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    Monopoly is one of the most well-known board games in the world. The goal is to acquire wealth by buying, selling, and renting properties, with the key to success being to obtain monopolies on clusters of properties to charge high rents. The game was invented in 1933 by Charles Darrow during the Great Depression while he was unemployed. He modeled the game after Atlantic City rather than his hometown of Germantown, as Atlantic City brought back fond memories from pre-Depression vacations. Parker Brothers later purchased the rights from Darrow and mass produced the game starting in 1935.

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    Probably The Most Recognized Board Game Around The World Is The Game of Monopoly

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    Monopoly is one of the most well-known board games in the world. The goal is to acquire wealth by buying, selling, and renting properties, with the key to success being to obtain monopolies on clusters of properties to charge high rents. The game was invented in 1933 by Charles Darrow during the Great Depression while he was unemployed. He modeled the game after Atlantic City rather than his hometown of Germantown, as Atlantic City brought back fond memories from pre-Depression vacations. Parker Brothers later purchased the rights from Darrow and mass produced the game starting in 1935.

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    Monopoly is one of the most well-known board games in the world. The goal is to acquire wealth by buying, selling, and renting properties, with the key to success being to obtain monopolies on clusters of properties to charge high rents. The game was invented in 1933 by Charles Darrow during the Great Depression while he was unemployed. He modeled the game after Atlantic City rather than his hometown of Germantown, as Atlantic City brought back fond memories from pre-Depression vacations. Parker Brothers later purchased the rights from Darrow and mass produced the game starting in 1935.

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    Probably The Most Recognized Board Game Around The World Is The Game of Monopoly

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    Monopoly is one of the most well-known board games in the world. The goal is to acquire wealth by buying, selling, and renting properties, with the key to success being to obtain monopolies on clusters of properties to charge high rents. The game was invented in 1933 by Charles Darrow during the Great Depression while he was unemployed. He modeled the game after Atlantic City rather than his hometown of Germantown, as Atlantic City brought back fond memories from pre-Depression vacations. Parker Brothers later purchased the rights from Darrow and mass produced the game starting in 1935.

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    Probably the most recognized board game around the world is the game of monopoly.

    In this game,
    players vie for wealth by buying, selling, and renting properties; the key to success in the game, in
    addition to a bit of luck, is for a player to acquire monopolies on clusters of properties in order to
    force opponents to pay exorbitant rents and fees.

    Although the game is now published in countless languages and versions, with foreign locations and
    place names appropriate to the target language adoring its board, the beginnings of the game were
    considerably more humble. The game was invented in 1933 by Charles Darrow, during the height of
    the great depression. Darrow, who lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was himself unemployed
    during those difficult financial times. He set the original game not as might be expected in his
    hometown of Germantown, but in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the site of numerous pre-Depression
    vacations, where he walked along the Boardwalk and visited Park Place. Darrow made the first games
    by hand and sold them locally until Parker Brothers purchased the rights to monopoly in 1935 and
    took the first steps toward the mass production of today.

    7 It is assumed that Parker Brothers is....

    (A) a real estate company


    (B) a game manufacturing company
    (C) a group of Charles Darrow's friends
    (D) a toy design company
    (E) a distributor of monopoly

    8 It is implied that Darrow selected Atlantic City as the setting for monopoly because....

    (A) it brought back good memories


    (B) his family came from Atlantic City
    (C) the people of Germantown might have been angered if he had used Germantown
    (D) Atlantic City was larger than Germantown (
    E) he could take a walk along the Boardwalk and go to Park Place

    Question 4 refers to the following text.

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    could do so during the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS),
    the world's largest scientific society. And if things work out, giant pandas Er Shun and Da Mao in the
    Toronto Zoo will be joining the quest by making their own contributions. "The giant pandas are
    contributing their feces," explained Ashli Brown, Ph.D., who heads the research. "We have
    discovered microbes in panda feces might actually be a solution to the search for sustainable new
    sources of energy. It's amazing that here we have an endangered species that's almost gone from the
    planet, yet there's still so much we have yet to learn from it. That underscores the importance of
    saving endangered and threatened animals."

    4. What can be inferred from the passage?

    (A) Giant pandas abound in China.


    (B) All zoos keep giant panda for their animal collection.
    (C) The experiment of giant panda's feces does not work out.
    (D) Giant pandas still need researching.
    (E) Researchers have now found many advantages from giant pandas' feces.

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