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 handling is especially modern, barely managed to become one of a distinguished group of discoveries by stealing the cover of the December issue for his first story As they approached, a lean man, carrying a black bag, darted out of an elevator shaft opposite it. the door, ran across the corridor, . He followed his initial success to accept the background for French heart-specialist, was dancing before the window, waving his bag frantically, raving at the sleepy boy. "Queek! I have tell you zee truth! I have zee most urgent necessity to go queekly. A patient I have in Paree, zat ees in zee most creetical condition!" "Hold your horses just a minute, fiction authors ever to sit down at the typewriter. When the the machine now. Russian diplomat from Moscow to Rio de dollars and eighty cents, please.... Your turn next. Remember this is just an experimental Janeiro.... Two hundred seventy Mister. We got a client in and when they wanted extrapolated theory in present tense, he assumed the Shock. Finally, when only psychological studies of the future courteously. "All right, madam. Walk out. Hope you found the transit pleasant." is of special interest because it was written You lost it off your hat?" "None of your impertinence, by the validity of the notion that wireless transmission of matter sir! I want my dog." "Ah, a dog. Must have jumped barely avoiding the farcical him sent on for three hundred and—" "Young man, if any harm is the next big transportation frontier to be conquered. It is especially important because it granted, regardless of the quantity writing, the surmise that this media would be a natural for westerns was particularly astute. of wonders, and proceed with the story. With only a few thousand in existence at the time of the drought and frost and dust-storms, "We want to go to Venus, if for the sake of survival on the Llano Estacado." poison-weeds and hail, "To Venus? Impossible. My was the escape he sought and his goal was labored to this end and the first he knew that a story of his had been accepted was when he to conceal it below his instrument panel. "Sure, old boy. I'd send you to heaven for that, if you'd give me is dangerous. I've got a sort of television attachment, for focusing By which I mean that it is the most interesting and stimulating do I owe you—" "Oh, that's all right. Between friends. Provided that stuff's sides. Don't move." that would have been strange to the man of four or five centuries before, when the I say—how're you coming back? I haven't got time to watch you." "Go ahead. We aren't coming back." "Gee! What is it? Elopement? I thought you were married already. concern was that to the lightly clad man at the window, who was Or is it business difficulties? blizzard was sweeping. But small inhaling deeply the fragrant air The Bears did make an awful raid last night. But you better Nada and Eric felt themselves the cold ato-light that illuminated the snow-covered city. With a distasteful grimace, he The next thing they knew, the hero was likely to be an ape-man roaring through the jungle, with green, that brought a thrill of pleasure to the young novelist's clattering machine. He wrote "thrilling action romances," as his enthusiastic publishers He was impartial as to the source of his thrills—provided they were distant enough from modern civilization. His not parasites on the machines." "It's wonderful to have a fine, strong man like you to trust in, "You're the perfect companion, Or a cowboy, "hard-riding, hard-shooting," the vanishing hero of the ancient ranches. Or a man Nada.... But now we must be practical. We must His heroes were invariably strong, fearless, resourceful fellows, equal terms with a cave-man, or call science to aid them in defending a beautiful mate from at the simple, romantic lives his heroes led, paid him handsome royalties, and subconsciously shared his opinion that civilization had taken all the best from on, without finding where a provident nature had left them even tripping into the study, gay and vivacious, and—as her husband of a few months most justly thought—altogether beautiful in a bright silk dressing gown. Recklessly, he slammed the machine back into its place, and resolved to forget that his next "red-blooded action thriller" was due in the publisher's office at the "to come forty million as this!" miles, and meet such a reception "Probably you're right. This soil seemed to be of alluvial origin. Shouldn't be surprised if seemed scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth. "You didn't bring any matches, dear?" "Matches! Of course not! We're going back to Nature." were extinct, there were no wild flowers, and no one had time to bother about sunsets. "I hope we get a fire pretty I'm hungry." He confessed to a few pangs of his own. They turned their attention to looking for banana trees, and coconut palms, but flowers." "If we could only go somewhere—" "There isn't anywhere to go. I "And tomorrow, when it has quit raining—I'm sure we'll do better." They crept in, as gloomy night natural lives. Maybe a rocket—" The Nada clung against Eric. hunting in the virgin forest, and bringing the game home to you! But I'm afraid there is no way.—Wait! The Cosmic Express." "The Cosmic Express?" the German physicist." "I've quit bothering about science. It has ruined nature, filled the world with silly, artificial "But this is quite remarkable, dear. A new way to travel—by ether!" "Don't you wish—we had known better?" if they were demolishing forests. Eric and Nada clung to each other, in doubt whether to stay or to fly through the storm. to convert the matter to be came nearer, until the earth shook beneath them, and they were afraid to move. carried into power, send it out copper. against which they had erected the flimsy shelter was rolled back, evidently by a chance blow Gradually the sound of the conflict "A darned shame," Eric grumbled, on the plate—just the same as grill, fairly bubbling apologies. "So sorry—an accident—inconceivable. I can't see how he the Express Ray picks up an hope you haven't been injured." "Why—what—what—" is the better of the two. For no receiving instrument is required, as in television. The object is built up of an infinite series of job. I hope you won't hold us for excessive damages." "No, I ask nothing except that you don't press charges against the boy. I don't want him to suffer transmission, all but a tiny fraction of the power is lost, and power is required to rebuild the "I don't wonder. You look like you've been through—I don't "Not altogether. But I should worry! Here comes breakfast. for it in any way. My wife and I will be perfectly satisfied to get back to our apartment." delivered his promised story to his publishers, a thrilling tale of a man marooned on Venus, with for himself and his mate, hunted food for her, defended her from once more staring distastefully at his typewriter. "Oh, darling! I'm thrilled to death about the Cosmic Express! away from all this hateful conventional society—" "We can go to their office—it's only five minutes. The chap that operates the machine for the company is a pal of mine. He's not supposed to take passengers except between the offices they have scattered about the world. But I know his weak point—" Five minutes later Mr. Eric Stokes-Harding and his pretty

<question>:
Why is the machine operator willing to risk his job by sending Eric and Nada to Venus?

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A The operator is an alcoholic, and alcohol has been outlawed.
B The operator thinks he sent them to Hong Kong,
C The operator is a friend of Eric's, and he owes Eric a favor.
D It does not occur to him that he is risking his job to send them.

<answer>:

A