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10. A. cultures B. habits C. traditions D. customsRead the passage and choose the best answer for each sentence below.There is very little documentation about the origins of water polo. It is known, however, that thesport originated in the rivers and lakes of mid-19th century England as an aquatic version of rugby. Earlygames used an inflated rubber ball that came from India known as a “pulu” (the single Indian word for all“balls”). Pronounced “polo” by the English, both the game and the ball became known as “water polo”.To attract more spectators to swimming exhibitions, the London Swimming Association designed a set ofwater polo rules for indoor swimming pools in 1870. At first, players scored by planting the ball on theend of the pool with both hands. A favorite trick of the players was to place the five-to-nine inch rubberball inside their swimming suit and dive under the murky water, and they would then appear again asclose to the goal as possible.The introduction of the rules by Scottish players changed the nature of water polo. It became a gamethat emphasized swimming, speed and passing. Scottish rules moved from a rugby variant to a soccerstyle of play. Goals became a cage of 10 x 3 feet and a goal could be scored by being thrown. Playerscould only be tackled when they “held” the ball and the ball could no longer be taken under water. Thesmall rubber ball was replaced by a leather soccer ball. If the player came up too near the goal, he waspromptly jumped on by the goalie, who was permitted to stand on the pool deck. Games were oftennothing more than gang fights in the water as players ignored the ball, preferring underwater wrestlingmatches that usually ended with one man floating to the surface unconscious. Water polo was first playedin the USA in 1888. The game featured the old rugby style of play which resembled American football inthe water. “American style” water polo became very popular and by the late 1890’s was played in suchvenues as Madison Square Garden and Boston’s Mechanics Hall, attracting 14,000 spectators to nationalchampionship games.