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Believe it or not, the \"trick\" part of the phrase was once a real warning, and grown-ups spent years trying to stop it. Picture a chilly lateOctober night in an American town about a hundred years ago, porch lights glowing and leaves crunching underfoot. The custom you know today is really a peace treaty between mischievous kids and tired adults, wrapped in a chocolate bar.  \nLong before candy entered the story, that door-knocking habit crossed the ocean from Britain and Ireland. There, on days connected to All Souls' Day in early November, poor people and children went\"souling,\" walking house to house and offering prayers in exchange for small spiced treats called soul cakes. Others practiced \"guising,\" dressing up in disguises and singing songs, telling jokes, or reciting verses to earn a coin or a bite of food. Notice the deal hidden in both customs: you gave something, a prayer or a performance, before you got a treat. That old idea of earning your reward would sail with immigrants to North America and wait quietly for its moment.  \nThat waiting ended noisily in early 1900s America, when Halloween had a reputation less for sweets and more for trouble. Instead of knocking politely, young people soaped windows, tipped over fences, and even lifted small wagons onto rooftops as pranks. By the 1920s and 1930s, some pranks caused real damage, and fed-up communities decided they had to do something. Towns and parents began throwing organized parties, parades, and treat-giving events, hoping that a fun night would keep bored kids from causing chaos.  \nOut of that clever bargain, a snappy new phrase began traveling from porch to porch in the 1920s and 1930s. The words \"trick or treat\" showed up in North American newspapers around that time, turning the old prank into a friendly threat: hand over a treat, or risk a trick. Then history threw a wrench into the fun, because during World War II sugar was rationed, and candy grew scarce. With sweets hard to find, trick-ortreating faded for a few lean years in the 1940s.  \nWhen the war ended and sugar flowed again, that faded custom came roaring back bigger than ever. In the booming 1950s, new suburbs filled with children, and candy companies realized that Halloween could sell an ocean of treats. Costumes, pumpkins, and doorbells became a national tradition, and today Halloween is one of the biggest spending holidays in the United States, according to National Retail Federation surveys. So the next time you drop a candy bar into a plastic pumpkin, remember it started as a truce, when a soul cake and a good prayer were the price of a treat.  \nThe History of Trick-or-Treating  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) According to the author, what is trick-or-treating today really a version of?\u003Cbr>A. 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They needed to make up for wartime sugar rationing\u003Cbr>C. They hoped a fun night would keep bored kids from causing chaos\u003Cbr>D. 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