Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Refer to the text to check your answers when appropriate.
Chess is called the game of kings. It has been around for a long time. People have been playing it for over 500 years. Chess is based on an even older game from India. The chess we play today is from Europe.
Chess is a two-player game. One player uses the white pieces. The other uses the
White Chess Pieces
black pieces. Each piece moves in a special way. One piece is called the king. Each player has one. The players take turns moving their pieces. If a player lands on a piece, he or she takes it. The game ends when a player loses his or her king. There are a few more rules, but those are the basics.
Some people think that chess is more than a game. They think that it makes the mind stronger. Good chess players use their brains. They take their time. They think about what will happen next. These skills are useful in life and in chess. Chess is kind of like a work out for the mind.
You don't always have lots of time to think when playing chess. There is a type of chess with short time limits. It's called blitz chess. In blitz chess, each player gets ten minutes to use for the whole game. Your clock runs during your turn. You hit the time clock after your move. This stops your clock. It also starts the other player's clock. If you run out of time, you lose. Games of blitz chess are fast-paced.
Chess is not just for people. Computers have been playing chess since the 1970s. At first they did not play well. They made mistakes. As time went on they grew stronger. In 1997, a computer beat the best player in the world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was big. It took up a whole room. By 2006 a cell phone could beat the best players in the world. Chess sure has come a long way. Don't you think so?
1. What is the author's purpose in writing the second paragraph?
a. To explain the rules of chess b. To compare different types of games
c. To talk about game pieces d. To persuade people to play chess
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A. To explain the rules of chess.
Explanation:
The given passage talks about the game of Chess. First paragraph of the passage is an introductory passage that talks about history of Chess such as since when the game is being played, the origin of Chess, and so on.
The second paragraph of passage talks about the rules of the chess and how it is played. In this passage, the author is informing the readers that it is a two-player game in which one player choose white chess pieces and the other balck. And how they play the game turn-by-turn and the game ends with a players losing his/her king.
So, the correct answer is option A.
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