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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AND THE STARS BY JOHN A. SENTRY from all the others, somehow. It gave a new face to the entire planet. Mac and I and some of the other crewmen went down on the field to the slings, bringing cases of machinery from their own ship. They sat atop their vehicles, lean and aloof, dashing in, whirling, shooting across the field to their ship and back like wild horsemen on the plains of Earth, paying us no notice. We were almost through when Serenus —officers and Everybody knows glass at the bar before he worked his the books about him seem to. all followed him with their eyes. "We've got to stop him," Mac meet him. It was an odd thing to before we had ever met any people from off Earth, even, you could hear people saying we were toughest, cruelest life-form in the Universe, unfit to mingle with the gentler wiser races in the stars, and a sure bet to steal their galaxy and corrupt it forever. Where see—the stoker, and the Jek, who these people got their information, I field might as well have been empty except for those two. "They'll kill him. They'll kill him right now," MacReidie whispered. then we met the Jeks, the Nosurwey, beyond Centaurus, and Sirius, and the Lud. We tried Terrestrial know-how, don't know. We were beaten. We moved out droves, and we retreated from the guttering fires of a dozen planets, we dug in, we fought through the last closer to your home world the year itself before Baker mutinied, shot Cope, and surrendered the remainder of the human race to the wiser, gentler races in the stars. That way, we lived. That way, we were permitted to carry on our little concerns, and mind our manners. The Jeks and the "I want to speak to your ship's their own affairs, and we knew they would leave us alone so long as we didn't bother them. Lud and the Nosurwey returned to We liked it that way. Understand with the Jeks." wiped out like the upstarts the rest of the Universe thought us to be. When they let us keep our own solar system and carry on a trickle of trade with the outside, we accepted it for make out all right, even with the screwball way they've got it set up." "Huh?" years ago. I was a little, pudgy ships, and physics is physics, no matter voice. I was a typical Earthman. We were out on a God-forsaken landing field on Mars, MacReidie and I, loading cargo aboard the where you go. I'll make out." man with short breath and a high-pitched do a crewman's work for a crewman's walking up to us. their home world, I'll probably ship out with some people from farther on. Why not? It's honest work." had what they called an metal and rots lungs. So the engine it turned out he'd trained an apprentice boy to take his place. It was strange how things became better of the two interstellar freighters the human race had left. "You're bound over the border, aren't you?" and other people beyond them, beyond them, getting along, going to back on Earth, where the veterans of the war sat and stared down into their glasses, waiting for night to It was the look you saw in the bars fall so they could go out into the themselves. But he had brought that look to Mars, to the landing field, and out here there was something going farther and farther. He messed with green shipmates and blue ones. One and two and three heads, tails, six legs—after all, ships are ships and they've all got to have something I didn't know what to say. MacReidie and I—almost all of the men live on all kinds of food, if he wants to get used to it. And any nontoxic atmosphere will do, as long as there's enough oxygen in it. I don't know what he did, to make his business, why not? A man can a fighting ship, somewhere, were about. All I know is, for some the same I'm a captain now, with and it wasn't until we'd gotten the Serenus So, I don't know. The older I get, Mac and I even spoke to each other We didn't talk about the stranger. a bunch on the passage to Mars and the Serenus , and began it all. crew. Even so, we had to sleep in shifts, with the ship's designers giving and control. That left very little for living being ever to travel all the way around the galaxy. THE END the people, who were crammed in ninety per cent of her space to my sleep shift. That meant he and I'd be sharing work shifts—me up in the control blister, parked in a soft chair, and him down in the Transcriber's Note: myself and he introduced himself. to the Earth-Mars shuttle field. things happen to the facts. It was MacReidie who first found combativeness in the Order Book?" he asked. "Just the usual. Keep a tight watch and proceed cautiously." the stoker. The mark was on him, as I've said. It was the Marines that did Earth's best dying. It had to be. They were trained to be the best we had, and They were the ones who sallied out into the doomed spaces between the stars and took the war to the other side as well as any human force could ever hope to. They were always the last to leave an abandoned position. was one of them. They were a kind of human being neither MacReidie nor I could hope to understand. "You don't know," Mac said. "It's enemies! Why do you suppose he no attention to anything else. The down—do you suppose they'll stop with him? They'll kill us, and then they'll go in and stamp Earth flat! You know it as well as I do." "I don't know, Mac," I said. "Go about his kind of man. Mac hit the viewport with his fist. "Easy! Easy—nothing's easy. I hate this life," he said in a murderous voice. "I don't know why I keep signing on. Mars to Centaurus and back, back and forth, in an old rust tub that's going to blow herself up Venus, by God you should of seen us! The were ... " "Are you entitled to wear that?" The crew were chuckling into their intercom, but it made the crew feel good. When the crew feels good, the "I was at this planet in '39. I was ship runs right, and it had been a said the last part in a Master's voice. Daniels didn't ask questions. He sent started "I Left Her Behind For You," things, the way these sessions would sometimes wind up when spacemen were far from home. But not since the war, we all seemed to realize together. may explain something. He and I This is what it was: " The rockets rise against the skies, Slowly in sunlight gleaming With silver hue upon the blue. And the universe waits, dreaming. " Where stars are spun and worlds begun, And men will find them waiting. The dreams of Man and galactic span Are equal and much the same. " What was he thinking of? Make your own choice. I think I came close to knowing him, at that moment, but until human beings turn telepath, no man can be sure of another. I got into mine, and after a while ship, and ... the stoker, or anyone else and the much more important than the fate of the human race. It may not seem that way to you. But as long as no one began anything, we could all get When we reached Alpha Centaurus, and set down at the trading field on the second planet, it was the same as the other trips we'd made, and the ship at the other end of the field, for the first time that the Lud hadn't built it. It was a leftover from the old colonial human government. And the city on the horizon—men had built it

<question>:
In the beginning of the story, what is the relationship between the humans and the alien races?

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A The aliens are distrustful of the humans, but leave them alone in a truce.
B The humans are allies with the Jeks against the Lud and the Nosurwey.
C They are at war.
D The aliens rule the humans.

<answer>:

A