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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along to write up the first on TV shows, or mentions in writers' We look like desperadoes, what there'll be scientific reports on the trip, but the public doesn't want them they want the human slant on things." Either way, it's better than what Jones calls them. (a group of maybe ten, huddling they won't tell me about them." "Nonsense," said Louie, sipping carefully at a paper cup of scalding coffee. "It'll be just like the public going along vicariously. They'll identify dampness from my palms on the knees of my trousers as I sat there, "how'll I go about it? A story? An article? A come together. I can't remember What?" Louie shrugged. "So keep a diary. It'll be more intimate, like." "But what if nothing happens?" a short and unscientific word and went to sleep. entrance to our cave. I don't know what they intend to do with us. Feed us, I hope. So far, they've just left us here, and we're out of rations. , which stated that this in a docket or a be, or else). enough. Dwight Kroger, the biochemist, is rather old to take the "rigors of the journey," as he puts it, but the government had a choice between sending a green scientist who could stand the trip or an accomplished man who would probably not survive, so they picked Kroger. We've We'd end up drowned in some grotto in the heart of the planet, says "What the hell," says Pat, "it's better than starving." It is not. gives the general appearance of belonging . So is everybody else. Right now I could eat a dinner raw, in a centrifuge, and keep it crowd thinned out, same as it did of the current, and was about a hundred and then calling numbers over a know him better. So far, he's still Captain Desmond to me. I haven't the vaguest idea what he looks like. during blastoff. The inertial gravities didn't bother me so much as of their ship so we have a sort of artificial gravity to hold us against the curved floor. It's that constant now and then suck up water from the stream while they're watching us, being careful not to get their lips today. Not me. guesses that their "blood" must be almost pure water, and that it washes away (from the inside, of (all sugar, of course) wet. He energy. course) the sugar they need for "How about a game sometime?" I knew the formula for water) to make sugar, a common carbohydrate. interview wasn't wasted. I learned that he is as Earth plants do in photosynthesis shape of the scales like prisms, to isolate the when he'd finished his spiel. "Simple," he said, as though he were addressing me by name. "They have a twofold reason to fear water. One: by complete solvency Top Secret. They'd have to cover it so I could look out the viewing in that medium, they lose all energy screen, and they still need it for to form more sugar, and still die, if a bit slower." alters the shape of the scales, "So now what do we do?" and they are unable to use sunpower kind of squat, with a vulturish neck doing so, "and then we cross this "We remove our boots," said and make him look rather mean, but he our way to freedom." was pleasant enough, and said I Also, I am one of the first five men in the history of the world to all black with white dots in it, and none of the dots move, except in a of theirs. They must be for biting something more substantial than moss, Kroger." "We'll risk it," said Pat. "It's better to go down fighting than to die of starvation." The hell it is. But there's some kind of a "drag." teeth the scaly things have come toward space. It's been done much better in the movies. There's just no awesomeness to it, no sense of depth or immensity. It's as impressive as a piece of velvet with salt sprinkled on it. and surprised a lot of them chewing gritty hunks of anthracite out these fast players who don't stop turned tail (literally) and clattered and think out their moves. And so and left his king in jeopardy, and I checkmated him next move. He said chess was a waste of time misunderstood and said, "A good chance of liking what break out the stores and have a celebration feast just outside the door of the ship. to stay and that it's urgent to return sugar). "Why," I said, "can't we just tell poem, sort of. "Because," said Pat, "if we tell them now, by the time we get back we'll be yesterday's news. This way we may be lucky and get a parade." "Maybe even money," said it may prove to be environmentally accurate, but that I should stick to Kroger, whose mind wasn't always on science. "But they'll ask why we didn't radio the info, sir," said Jones uneasily. shortly after landing." first name. with me on the trip, books that I'd always meant to read and never had the time. So now I know all about Vanity Fair , Pride and Prejudice , War and Peace , I'll be careful not to win this time. However, if I don't win, maybe this time . It must have been a riot when it first came out. I mean, all those sly digs at the aristocracy, with copious interpolations by Mr. Thackeray in case you didn't get signs he's right. Like the missing charcoal in the air-filtration-and-reclaiming (AFAR) system. And Here we are, somewhere in a air and water left for maybe three any more. Kroger is thrilled that he is learning something, maybe, about It's nice to have a "down below" thirsty. Kroger says that at least—when Pat says what do we do can't afford the water we need to melt them down. Besides, the all it turns to carbon, and we can use the carbon in the AFAR system. We'll have to try it, I guess. standing there, tall and silvery, the be intelligent, otherwise they couldn't have guessed at the carbohydrates present in the bread after a lifelong diet of anthracite. Pat says let's jettison Kroger. This time the vote went against be pulverized and mixed with sulphuric acid. He says this'll produce carbon. I certainly hope so. for us. The The air is too thin to carry sound well. the chamber with acid to subdue the creature, which carbonized nicely. So now we have plenty of which is a help. However, his tail is prehensile, and now and then it much like the one that had been yanks food right off the table from under our noses. Kroger says watch out. and die. Two: even partial sprinkling We are made of carbohydrates, too. I'd have to be so fast, hence a smoother bit of fuel we have left to set us in a descending spiral into one of (relatively) trip on our shock-absorbing when they're startled. Their attitudes aren't menacing, but their appearance is. And Jones says, "Who knows what's 'menacing' in We all agreed to try it. Not that we thought it had a good chance of working, but none of us had a better you know the rest of and we all became nine-day wonders until the dismantling of the It's later what over this and the far edge like pink in a few weeks. It looks like the five of us have abetted an invasion Needless to say, we're no longer Well, we're at the bottom, and six or seven toes. It varies from too, or else they have the damnedest-looking The constant shower of sand

<question>:
What does the last line indicate about modern society, in general?

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A Humans in the modern age have been desensitized to crises
B Creating a solution sometimes requires people to return to the source from which the problem originated
C Quality is just as, if not more important, than quantity when it comes to armed forces
D The preference for intrigue over information has the potential to destroy a society

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A