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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The Repairman By Harry Harrison Illustrated by Kramer latched onto the steel plates on my shoulders. The the most of a bad situation and threw them a snappy military salute. Old Man had that look of intense glee on his face that meant someone of intelligence to figure it would be me. I talked first, bold attack being the best defense and so forth. company secrets to me.” accidental or deliberate. slot onto his desk. “This is your contract,” he said. “It tells how and when you will work. A steel-and-vanadium-bound contract that you Four: The fact that they would probably let another repairman in, under nothing, like butchering a few of them, that would make them antagonistic toward future ancestral messengers. it would be some other repairman who’d get the job. “I should have said a duplicate of your contract—like this — Harry Harrison Transcriber’s Note building.” This etext was produced from my contract. I slumped, defeated, waiting for the blow to land. The Old Man fondled “ What I had worked on every type or model made. But I had never heard of this kind. “Mark III,” the Old Man repeated, practically chortling. horror. “It’s a monstrosity! It looks more like a distillery than a beacon—must be at least a few hundred meters high. I’m a repairman, not an archeologist. This pile of junk is over 2000 years old. Just forget about it and build a new one.” The Old Man leaned over his desk, breathing into my face. “It He leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture “This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when to last forever—or damn close to it. When one of them breaks down, it is never He was telling me —the guy who did the job while he sat back on his fat paycheck in an air-conditioned office. He rambled on. “How I wish that were all it took! I would have a do almost anything—manned by a bunch of irresponsibles like .” I nodded moodily at his pointing finger. mechanics, engineers, soldiers, con-men and anything else it takes to do into doing a simple job. If you think you’re fed up, just think operate!” figuring a way to outfigure me. It was all very depressing, so I stopped for a drink, then went on to By To understand the importance of the beacons, you have to understand hyperspace. Not that many people do, but it is easy enough to understand that in this -space the regular rules don’t apply. Speed and measurements are a matter of relationship, not constant facts like the fixed universe. of its radiation and represents a measurable point in hyperspace. Triangulation and quadrature of the beacons works for navigation—only it follows its own rules. The rules are complex and variable, but they are still rules that a navigator can follow. his desk. If possible, the smile was still wider now. only one man to a ship because that is all it takes to operate the take months, and often does. This job didn’t turn out to be quite that bad. I zeroed on the a built-in safety factor I never could eliminate from the machine. knows this, too. They had a safety factor built into the computer so you It the stars, comparing them to the spectra of Proxima Centauri. It finally A fast reading with the photocell gave me the apparent magnitude and a comparison with its absolute magnitude showed its distance. Not as bad as I had thought—a six-week run, give or take a few days. After just about finished a correspondence course in nucleonics. Most company grades your pay by the number of specialties you can handle. All distance. was a mushy-looking, wet kind of globe. I tried to make sense out of this business, you learn early when and where to risk your own skin. The eye would be good enough for the preliminary survey. in a ten-mile circle was this pyramid—and that definitely clicked in my mind. Locking weren’t even mentioned by the idiots who constructed the thing, into a circular orbit about twenty feet above the pyramid. The summit of irritate the things who had built the pyramid. A great beginning for a job and one clearly designed to drive a stronger man than me to the bottle. Normally, a repairman stays away from native cultures. They are poison. repairman wants to make no sacrifices of any kind for his job. For this has to go on a planet with a culture, it is usually built in some yet to find out. But that would come in time. The first thing to do was And, for that fool-proof. expressions. This is fairly easy to do when you have a machine memory to turned around. I tagged this expression with the phrase, “Hey, It gurgled out through the speaker in the local tongue and he turned When you get enough reference phrases like this in the memory bank, the I found him easily enough. He was the Centaurian version of a an outcropping of rock and wait for him. paradise.” This fitted in with what I could make out of the local religion. filled him in. I learned all I needed to know of the history, past and recent, and it didn’t think much of them. They were a low type and confined to a this course, what happened. A city was built around the temple and, through the centuries, the equipment. from 3D snaps of Grandson, I modeled a passable reptile head exactly like them, just something close, to soothe the native mind. It’s logical. If I were an ignorant aborigine of wearing a suit of plastiflesh that looked remotely humanoid, I would at least stay and talk to him. This was what I was aiming to do with the Centaurians. a duck-waddle, but that only helped the resemblance. the Great God,” I said. Of course I didn’t say it out loud, just whispered loud enough for the throat mike to catch. This was jaws. The natives chomped and rattled and the translation rolled out almost Some of the more credulous natives prostrated themselves and others fled they just stood and muttered. I had to take the offensive again. “Begone, O faithful steed,” I said to the eye, and pressed the control in my palm at the same time. It took off straight up a bit faster than I wanted The and he gave me a cold and fishy eye, then growled something. The MT whispered into my ear, “Just what in the name of the thirteenth sin are you and what are you doing here?” restore the Holy Waters.” This raised a buzz of conversation behind me, but got no rise out of the could almost hear the wheels turning behind that moss-covered forehead. will—” the wrath of those who have Passed On will turn against you.” The First Lizard knew I was talking sense then and immediately called a settled all the major points. the previous ones had all been me. “Undoubtedly you know of the rule,” he said. “Because smiling, if thirty teeth peeking out of what looked like a crack in an old suitcase can be called smiling. leave the Holy of Holies, not iron.” He took a good thirty seconds to think it over and had to agree with me. eye-sockets red pits of burned flesh. They knew what I wanted and led the way without a word. PERSONNEL ONLY if anything, unexpectedly bright from constant polishing. switches and that had caused the trouble. Rather , that had started about a tenth the size of the ancient bucket of bolts and produced at some sign of wear. wear whatever. Other parts they had beefed up, figuring they would wear, made a list of parts. they were loaded in a metal crate. In the darkest hour before dawn, the When they had given up, I boomed orders at them through a speaker in the crate. They spent most of the day sweating the heavy box up through the The they were waiting for. “It has been decided,” a lizard said, “that you shall serve your every need.” A delightful prospect, eternity spent in a locked beacon with three ancestors!” I had the speaker on full volume and the vibration almost shook my head off. the surface. eye-sockets and the plastic gave off an authentic odor.

<question>:
Which of the following words best describes the main character's personality?

<options>:
A Sarcastic
B Good-natured
C Serious
D Reverent

<answer>:

A