Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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project. If the big soap companies are wondering where all that soap went a few years ago, we can tell them. It went to Mars. Soap caught on immediately. It was snapped up as fast as it arrived. Where was it all going? A Martian, in line for a bar in the evening, was back again the following morning for another one. The answer was, the Martians stayed as dirty as ever because they victims, told in vivid, jet-speed style. Here you'll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the other Martians they are mad at. The going price is one hundred carats of diamonds to kill can still be heard since we dissected the U.S.A. But Mars was our toughest task of spectroscoping. The cab drivers spoke a different language and the bell-hops couldn't read our the home of the victim and offer to bury him cheap. Two hundred and fifty carats gets a Martian planted in style. Inasmuch as Martians live underground, burying is done in reverse, by Way. By the time we went through Mars—its canals, its caves, its which is cheap considering the average laborer currency. Yet, we think we have X-rayed the dizziest—and this may Mars is presently no problem to Earth, and will not be until we have all its gold and the Martians begin asking us for loans. Mars a better place in which to live in fact, we don't give a damn what kind of a place it is to live in. Meanwhile, Lait and Mortimer say let the gangsters and communists have satellites and its catacombs—we knew more about it than anyone who lives there. As Mars comes closer, the visitor from Earth quickly realizes it has a manner and a glamor of its own it is unworldy, it is out of this London or Paris. The Martian feeling is dreamlike it comes from being close to the stuff dreams are made of. However, after the sojourner lands, he discovers that Mars is not much different than the planet he left indeed, men are pretty much the thrown on a large screen, a peep show you never saw on your TV during the science-fiction hour. Each day the Earth man spends on Mars makes him feel more at home thus, it comes as no surprise to the initiated that even here, at least 35,000,000 miles away from Times Square, there are hoodlums who Mars. Why a spaceman wants to stand on the outer hull of a ship halfway to Mars is not clear. Possibly to win a bet. Space platform : A man-made satellite rotating around Earth between here and the Moon. Scientists say this is a necessary first step to interplanetary travel. Mars Confidential proves the fallacy of this theory. we just knew he came from Mars. This is what he told us: Shortly after the end of World War II, a syndicate composed of The Mafia sent a couple of front men to explore the desert. Somewhere : The source from which power is derived to carry men to the stars. Optional on the more expensive space ships, at extra cost. ungentle fists on their conductor. "What goes on?" he was asked. "This is a space ship and we are headed for Mars." "What's Mars?" "A planet up in space, loaded with gold and diamonds." "Any bims there?" stuff sold in Flatbush, it acted like a gentle stimulant. Upon their safe landing in Nevada, the Columbuses of this first flight to Mars put in long-distance calls to all the other important hoods in the country. The Crime Cartel met in Cleveland—in the third floor front of a . Mars : A candy bar. Mars. Considerable dissension arose over the bookmaking facilities, when it was learned that the radioactive surface of the planet made it Pluto or something like that. Hyperdrive : The motor that is used to drive a space ship faster than the speed of light. Invented by science-fiction The first problem to be ironed out was how to speed up transportation and failing that, to construct spacious space ships which would attract pleasure-bent trade from Terra —Earth to you—with such innovations as roulette wheels, steam rooms, cocktail lounges, double anyone to call us liars—and prove it! Only chumps bring babes with them to Mars. The temperature is a little colder there than on Earth and the air a little thinner. So Terra dames complain one mink coat doesn't keep them warm they need two. On the other hand, the gravity is considerably less than on Earth. Martian women are bags, so perhaps you had better disregard the injunction above and bring your own, even if it means two furs. Martian fair sex. Martians, as well as Men, have their ups and downs. The citizens of the planet are apparently about halfway down the Martians in for a fifty-fifty partnership, which means they actually gave them one per cent, which is generous at that. Never having had the great advantages of a New Deal, the Martians are still backward and use gold as a means of exchange. With no Harvard bigdomes to tell them gold is a thing of the past, the yellow metal circulates there as freely and easily as we once kicked pennies around before they became extinct here. The Mafistas quickly set the Martians right about the futility of gold. They eagerly turned it over to the Earthmen in exchange for The discovery came as an accident. The first Earthman to be eliminated on Mars was a two-bit hood from They further discovered that the chief source of Martian diet is—believe it or not—poppy seed, hemp and coca leaf, and that the which passes for a salad dressing. Though the Martians were absolutely impervious to the narcotic qualities of the aforementioned flora, they got higher than Mars on So the Mafia was in business. The Martians sniffed granulated sugar, generous exchange for sugar—which was selling on Earth at a nickel or so a pound wholesale. The space ship went into shuttle service. A load of diamonds and dope Martians higher even than sugar, and brought larger and quicker returns. didn't know how to do it any different on Mars. What to cut the sugar with on Mars? Simple. With heroin, of course, which is worthless there. This is a brief rundown on the racket situation as it currently exists decision reached there was to corner chlorophyll (which accounts in part for the delay in putting it on the market down here) and ship it to Mars to deodorize the populace there. After which the ladies of the evening got off their feet and went back to work. GAMBLING : Until the arrival of the Mafia, gambling on Mars was support life lavishly, though why Martians want to live after they look at each other we cannot tell you, even confidential. For this reason Martian cities are built underground, and travel between them is carried on through a complicated system of subways predating the New York IRT line by several thousand centuries, though to the naked eye there is little difference between a Brooklyn express and a Mars express, yet the latter were built before the Pyramids. When the first load of Black Handers arrived, they naturally balked against living underground. It reminded them too much of the days So the Mafia put the Martians to work building a town. There are no other way for a bucket full of gold. Until the arrival of the Earthmen, the Martians were, as stated, they go on sugar binges. Chocolate bars are as common on Mars as saloons are on Broadway, and it is not unusual to see "gone" Martians getting heaved out of these The gangsters had not been on Mars long before they heard rumors about black limousine to see what was going. We tell you this Confidential. What they found was a Communist apparatus sent to Mars from Soviet Russia. This cell was so active that Commies had taken over almost half the planet before the arrival of the Mafia, with their domain extending the four Martian governments were either secretly party members or And so when the gangsters heard there were Communist cells on Mars, to distilleries. And so it was on Mars. With all the rackets cornered, the gangsters decided it was time to go into some straight businesses.

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Why did the Mafia strike a partnership deal with the Martians?

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A Out of fear that the Martians would start a conflict
B Out of pity for the Martians
C Neither party could harm one another
D To make travel to and from Mars more convenient

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C