input: Text: Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories April-May 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. MARS CONFIDENTIAL! Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer Illustrator : L. R. Summers Here is history's biggest news scoop! Those intrepid reporters Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, whose best-selling exposes of life's seamy side from New York to Medicine Hat have made them famous, here strip away the veil of millions of miles to bring you the lowdown on our sister planet. It is an amazing account of vice and violence, of virtues and victims, told in vivid, jet-speed style. Here you'll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the part the Mafia plays in her undoing, the rape and rapine that has made this heavenly body the cesspool of the Universe. In other words, this is Mars—Confidential! P-s-s-s-s-t! HERE WE GO AGAIN—Confidential. We turned New York inside out. We turned Chicago upside down. In Washington we turned the insiders out and the outsiders in. The howls 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 currency. Yet, we think we have X-rayed the dizziest—and this may amaze you—
  Question: Once virtually unmarred, Mars turns into a veritable sess pool because
  
   (A) humans corrupted Mars and the Martians in a way that mirrored what they had done to Earth and humankind.
   (B) Martians began to partake in heavy opioid use, and the entire planet became one big "Skid Row."
   (C) when humans began to occupy the area, the atmosphere changed and started to deteriorate, making it disgusting.
   (D) humans did not care about the way they treated the environment of the planet.  They came in and destroyed a once beautiful planet that now has no natural resources or habitats it once had.
  Answer:
output: humans corrupted Mars and the Martians in a way that mirrored what they had done to Earth and humankind.