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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research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. The Cosmic Express tube exhausted of air, at a speed that would have made an old subway rider gasp with amazement. barely managed to become one of COSMIC EXPRESS a distinguished group of discoveries by stealing the cover of the in AMAZING STORIES and fiction authors ever to sit down at the typewriter. When the vogue for science-fantasy altered Janeiro.... Two hundred seventy dollars and eighty cents, please.... Your turn next. Remember this is just an experimental Shock. Finally, when only psychological studies of the future the half-hidden machine, spoke courteously. The Cosmic Express Hope you found the transit pleasant." "But my Violet! My precious Violet!" a shrill female voice came from the machine. "Sir, what have you done with my earliest indication of a more general "I'm sure I don't know, madam. You lost it off your hat?" "None of your impertinence, capability. The lightness of the handling is especially modern, barely avoiding the farcical by the validity of the notion that darling Violet?" wireless transmission of matter granted, regardless of the quantity of wonders, and proceed with the story. With only a few thousand scanning-disk television sets in existence at the time of the writing, the surmise that this gems, waddled pompously out of the door through which the frantic French doctor had so recently vanished. She rolled heavily across the room, and out into the corridor. Shrill words "My days were filled," he remembers, "with monotonous rounds of what seemed an endless, drought and frost and dust-storms, poison-weeds and hail, for the sake of survival on the there." "To Venus? Impossible. My orders are to use the Express of science fiction and has gone on record as follows: "I feel that "Sure, old boy. I'd send you to heaven for that, if you'd give me the micrometer readings to set the ray with. But I tell you, this is dangerous. I've got a sort of science-fiction is the folklore of the new world of science, and five centuries before, when the Age of Aviation was beginning. Suddenly there was a sharp tingling sensation where they touched and two inches thick, with an intricate mass of machinery below it. the polished surface. our operator drunk. I've no idea "I think the Express Ray is I say—how're you coming back? I haven't got time to watch you." "Go ahead. We aren't coming Above the glass, over this New York of 2432 A. D., a freezing blizzard was sweeping. But small "Gee! What is it? Elopement? I thought you were married already. from the plants below—air kept, winter and summer, exactly at A bell jangled. "So long," the youth called. Nada and Eric felt themselves 20° C. With another yawn, Mr. Eric there was a sharp tingling sensation where they touched the polished surface. Then blackness, blankness. The next thing they knew, the fires were gone from about garments stained with black mud. "Yes, we're on our feet now, not parasites on the machines." Nada.... But now we must be practical. We must build a fire, find weapons, set up be very abundant, and of a most sticky consistence. They sank into it ankle deep at every step, their feet. A mile they struggled on, without finding where a provident nature had left them even a single fragment of quartz, to say nothing of a mass of pure copper. "A darned shame," Eric grumbled, "to come forty million tripping into the study, gay and vivacious, and—as her husband Nada stopped. "Eric," she said, "I'm tired. And I don't believe of a few months most justly miles, and meet such a reception soil seemed to be of alluvial origin. Shouldn't be surprised if the native rock is some hundreds of feet underground. Your idea is better." breakfast sent up the automatic shaft from the kitchens below. never tried it, myself. We need some dry sticks, first." They resumed the weary march, with a good fraction of the new planet adhering to their feet. Rain was still falling from the dark heavens in a steady, warm downpour. Dry wood seemed scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth. were extinct, there were no wild flowers, and no one had time to "Matches! Of course not! "You didn't bring any matches, dear?" bother about sunsets. We're going back to Nature." they did not seem to abound in living under glass, like hot-house flowers." "If we could only go somewhere—" the Venerian jungle. Even small write about the West, Africa, South Sea Islands. But they were all filled up two hundred "If only we lived on Venus! I was listening to a lecture on the television, last night. The that it has not cooled so much. It has a thick, cloudy atmosphere, and low, rainy forests. There's ruined it." With the darkness, the temperature fell somewhat, and "Yes, Kinsley, with his new infra-red ray telescope, that penetrates Swarms of mosquito-like insects, seemingly not inconvenienced in the least by the inclement elements, swarmed about them in clouds. or something of the sort. This world seems to be in about the same state as the Earth when The Cosmic Express." "The Cosmic Express?" "A new invention. Just perfected a few weeks ago, I understand. mighty tread. "Eric," a thin voice trembled. "I've quit bothering about science. It has ruined nature, filled the world with silly, artificial "Don't you think—it might have The earth trembled beneath a both are simply etheric vibration, of different sorts." She smiled proudly. "I can give you examples, even of the change. The disintegration of the radium atom, making helium and lead and an atom." "Fine! I thought you said you weren't a scientist." He glowed the new Cosmic Express, is simply atoms at the destination." "But the amount of energy must be terrific—" "It is. You know short waves ones. The Express Ray is an from the invisible monsters. The pitiful roof collapsed on the bedraggled even the Cosmic Ray, and correspondingly humans. Nada burst into tears. "Oh, if only—if only—" Suddenly the crystal block. Dizziness, insensibility overcame them. A few moments later, they were lying Cosmic Express office, with all the Express Ray picks up an "So sorry—an accident—inconceivable. I can't see how he "An analogy from television might help. You know that by means of the scanning disc, the picture is transformed into mere rapid fluctuations in the brightness of a beam of light. In a parallel manner, the focal plane of the Express Ray moves slowly through the object, progressively, dissolving layers of the thickness of a single atom, which are accurately reproduced at the other focus of the instrument—which something about Venus. I consulted the auto-register, and where he got the stuff. He muttered up, and the 'dry-laws' are on the job. I hope you won't hold us for with radio apparatus because even with the best beam transmission, all but a tiny fraction of the power is lost, and power is required to rebuild the atoms. Do you understand, dear?" "Not altogether. But I should "I don't wonder. You look like you've been through—I don't death about the Cosmic Express! society—" "We can go to their office—it's only five minutes. The chap that operates the machine for except between the offices they have scattered about the world. But I know his weak point—" "All right, madam. Walk out. minutes later Mr. Eric Stokes-Harding and his pretty

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All of the following factors reveal that the Cosmic Express is in the initial stages of development EXCEPT for

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A the qualifications of the operating staff
B the limited number of receiving stations
C the disappearance of Violet
D the lack of micrometer readings

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D