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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[109] Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt. For those "Gone? Where did they take him?" The Tepoktan student, whose think to watch him, they tell me ... and quite rightly, I think—" "Get on with it, Klaft! group. "Then you can give us no precise count of the stars in the graying hair. In the clicking Tepoktan curious to see some of Tepokt. Tepokt, leaving him the only survivor. Barred off as they were from venturing into space, the highly civilized Tepoktans constantly displayed the curiosity of dreamers in matters related to the universe. Because of the veil of meteorites and satellite fragments whirling about their "Why did he say he was traveling that way?" asked Kinton, thinking to himself of the spaceship! Was the man crazy? "He did not say," answered planet, their astronomers had acquired torturous skills but only scraps of real knowledge. "the number is actually as vast as it seems to those of you peering through the Dome race have not yet encountered any beings capable of estimating of Eyes. The scientists of my with dismay. "Yes, for they carried only the Tepoktan was slightly under years. The Tepoktans had been thinking well of Terrans, but now— He did not worry about his natural. "I sympathize with your curiosity," he added. "It is a marvel that your scientists have managed to measure the distances of so many stars." He could tell that they were pleased by his admiration, and a spaceman. In fact, he had already [110] enjoyed a decade of borrowed wondered yet again why any had reached a fairly ripe age for been concerned about himself. He unable to offer the Tepoktans any teach their experts anything. he reaches—" first space explorers?" came another question. He broke off at the word "spaceship" but he noticed a reserved expression on Klaft's chamber parted. Klaft, the Tepoktan pointed face. His aide had probably more about the problems of your Before Kinton had formed his turning their pointed visages to he realize that two armed Tepoktans follow Klaft's progress. to fit Tepoktan claws. The constable, this discussion," he announced. "I am informed that another ship from space has reached the surface of Tepokt. My presence is requested in case the crew are of my own planet." [104] Klaft excitedly skipped down To protect him, he wondered. Or to get Birken? The pilot headed the craft an honor. They would hardly learn anything Tepoktan scientists, historians, stopped to demand fuel from some maintenance workers, but about that the rest of their lives! You must not waste your strength on these people who come out of curiosity." was a Terran, one of his own kind. Maybe they really didn't want to risk hurting his feelings, of Tepokt. The time to handle what they considered his private affair. He wondered what to do. He had no actual faith in the idea thought. Maybe he shouldn't stand in the way of their biologists of a criminally self-centered nature. "I shouldn't and die. Whose wishes would then prevail? rather be buried, even if that left them with only what he which some of the Tepoktan scientists could tell them about the human and surgeons. But he'd spoken in Terran or Tepoktan. their science back to a form of Tepokt were underdeveloped. In was smaller and had different standards of luxury. In the second, a certain lack of drive resulted from the inability to break out into interplanetary space. Kinton had been inexplicably lucky to have reached the upthrust bulk of the spaceship that had never flown. "Never mind landing at the "We do not know if they have always been meteorites," the Tepoktans had told Kinton, "or but our observers have proved mathematically that no direct path through of Tepokt's sun upon the hull of the spaceship they had also built for him. Perhaps ... would it be fair to encourage the newcomer failed to work up any strong desire to try it. The Tepoktans "Where do you think you're going?" Seeing that no one ran after with no noticeable tone of regret. "I figure I better travel on for my health." "It's not so damn healthy up astrology and Kinton often told them jokingly that he felt no don't mean I gotta believe it." "Wait! Don't you think they tried sending unmanned rockets urge to risk a physical encounter up? Every one was struck and with his own personal Eye. of Tepokt was passing by exploded." some amateur or professional astronomer. Before an hour had He glanced back at the Tepoktans elapsed, most of them would be some of which could already be seen. These could easily be mistaken for stars or the other five planets of the system, but in a short while the tinier ones in "Not Milky Way. Klaft, who had descended first, leaving the pilot to bring up the their party," he muttered. a Tepoktan proverb often applied for a long moment. The Tepoktans loved speculating about the as he realized that keeping Birken here would also expose a highly cultured people to an unscrupulous unsolvable. They had even founded clubs to argue whether two satellites had been destroyed or to send them to drag you back here?" the motionless Tepoktans with a derisive sneer. "They don't look too eager to Kinton growled a Tepoktan expression until then what he was really hoping for! The spaceman had been spaceship, and had covered nearly Kinton ran at the Tepoktans, half the distance. of Tepoktan arms, the launcher George," said the plump Tepoktan "I have studied Terran physiology," he admitted complacently. I don't blame you if I'm hard to understand. You see, I've been here ten years without ever having another Terran to speak to." The spaceman considered that for a few breaths, then seemed "It's extremely unusual that anything gets through to the surface, let alone a spaceship. What happened to you?" Terran colonies?" "Yeah. Jet-hoppers spreadin' all over the other five. None of the land-hungry poops figured a way to set down here, though, or they'd be creepin' around this planet too." it? Run out of fuel?" The other eyed him for a few seconds before dropping his rule—prisons, for instance. He resolved to be wary of the "Ya might say I was explorin'," Birken replied at last. "That's why I come alone. Didn't want nobody else hurt if "What? Why ... why ... he would have destroyed the ship you worked so hard to build. There is no safe path through the Dome of Eyes." had lost track of the moments he had wasted in talk while the serious. "They'll fix you up," he assured the spaceman. "They're quite good at it, even if the sight of one does make you think a go back and commit more crimes?" "I understand, George, the only way he could repay the Tepoktans in his clicking language. "We do not think it necessary to grieve for the pain they bring upon themselves." "No, I suppose not," sighed Kinton. "I ... it's just—" On the other hand, the chance to see and talk with one of his own kind drew him like a magnet "It's just that now I'm lonely ... again," he said. Transcriber's Note: Space Science Fiction about the planet, Tepokt. February 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the about this. "I think we should not expect ... that is—" "Who are born to die under Klaft, as if to ease the concern plain on Kinton's face. "In other words, criminals. You suspect Tepokt's gravity while fleeing not told Birken about the spaceship. He didn't think the man exactly believed his explanation of why there was no use taking off in it. Yet he continued to spend as

<question>:
Why are the Tepoktans so interested in space travel?

<options>:
A They do not know anything about the stars.
B They want to leave their planet.
C They are interested in what they cannot do.
D They are not interested in space travel.

<answer>:

C