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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not." By ROBERT ABERNATHY Earth set itself grimly to meet them with corrosive fire, determined to blast them "Suppose we settle this argument about humanity," said Knof Llud changes that nine hundred years had wrought. "Perhaps, if you realize your position, you will follow the intelligent example of the the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] most hopeful of the expeditions—and its captain had been a good friend sated with the sight of wonders—of multiple systems of giant stars, of nebulae that sprawled in empty flame across light years. But now unwonted excitement possessed the hundred-odd members of the Quest III's preferred suicide to defeat, and took his ship into the Sun." A short lie at the long journey's end. For the He grinned nastily at Knof Llud. "Have you any other last wishes?" was coming home the "It is enough for you to know that you must die." the voyage's beginning eighty per cent of the fifteen-hundred-foot identified it—no more." were forgotten and exaltation prevailed. to make didn't matter anyway, and it might have spoiled this moment. he asked, "How do you shrewdly, of Knof Jr. and Delza, who save from pictures could not He said, with a touch of tolerant amusement, "What did you think might by— already set up on the calculator a course that would carry them to Llud nodded curt approval, remarking, "Probably we'll be intercepted hesitantly. "What kind of a reception do you suppose we'll get?" Llud shook his head slowly. "Who knows? We don't know whether any of the other found himself wishing that he could find some back-breaking task for everyone on board, himself included, to fill up the hours that remained. There was an extensive and well-chosen film library in the cabin, but he couldn't persuade himself to kill time that way. He could go down and watch the screens, or to the family apartment where he might find Lesra and the children—but somehow he didn't want to do that either. He felt empty, drained—like his ship. As the Quest III's and the hope of success in man's mightiest venture had dwindled, so the Perhaps, he thought, he was feeling the weight of his nine hundred built-in voice recorder and pigeonholes for records. There were about three dozen film spools there—his personal memoirs of the great expedition, a segment of his life and of history. He might add that to the ship's official log and its collections of scientific data, as a report to whatever powers might be on Earth now—if such powers were its spectrum, so like our own Sun's, beckons. If success comes there, a century will have passed before we can return to Earth friends, relatives, all the generation that launched the Quest ships will be long since dead. Nevertheless we go on. Our generation's dream, humanity's dream, lives in us and in the ship forever...." Presently Knof Llud switched off that younger voice of his and leaned back, an ironic smile touching his lips. That fervent idealism seemed He rose, slipped the record back in its niche and picked out another, later, one. "We face the unpleasant realization that what was feared is probably may complete our search without finding even one new Earth. "It makes no difference, of course This may be man's last chance of escaping his pitiful limitation to and its two sisters, the immense expenditure of time and labor and exhausted. Only once in a long age does mankind rise to such a selfless or the war efforts of the nations in the last great conflicts of the the result of a population's outgrowing its room and resources, and Quests . Perhaps our effort will prove as futile as pyramid-building, less practical than orgies of slaughter to reduce pressure.... In any case, it would be impossible to transport very many people to other stars expanding limitlessly into the Universe.... "Hopeless, unless we find planets!" Knof Llud shook his head sorrowfully and took off the spool. That was from the time when he had grown philosophical after the first disappointments. He frowned thoughtfully, choosing one more spool that was only four longing.... "We are in the heart of Pleiades "According to plan, the "But what are a few thousand stars in a galaxy of billions? We have only, as it were, visited a handful of the outlying villages of the Universe, while the lights of its great cities still blaze far ahead along the Milky Way. "On flimsy excuses I have had Zost Relyul make observations of the could of aging too greatly. It would be a one-way journey—even if enough perhaps the human race itself, would have perished from memory. "That was why the planners limited our voyage, and those of the other to the sociodynamic predictions made then, our civilization—if the other expeditions failed also—will have reached a dangerously unstable overpopulation. "Why go back, then with the news of our failure? Why not forget about Earth and go on to Omega Centauri? What use is quixotic loyalty to a decree five thousand years old, whose makers are dead and which may be "Would the crew be willing? I don't know—some of them still show signs of homesickness, though they know with their minds that everything that was once 'home' has probably been swept away.... The memory of that fierce impulse to go on still had power to shake him. A couple of lines of poetry came into his head, as he read them once in translation from the ancient English.... ... for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Llud sighed. He still couldn't say just why he had given the order to Knof could go camping, and lie on their backs at night and gaze at the would want to do that, though. it seemed to falter one moment in flight. practical purposes invulnerable. then felt a curious detached relief at the knowledge that after all "If they're that small," said Knof Llud deliberately, "they can't carry seriousness and, without wasting time on questions, "Can I go with you, huh, Dad?" he had confidence in "If they had anything heavier," surmised the captain, "they'd have would be hard to find out and it didn't matter field which transmitted the engines' power equally to every atom of the ship would have felt nothing at all of was intentionally operated at one half of one per cent efficiency to one were no fatalist, there seemed no reason to stop decelerating or change course. There was nowhere else to go and too little fuel left if there had been come what might, this was journey's end—perhaps the watchers for the brief moment in which its very atoms were torn apart. Knof Jr. whooped ecstatically and then subsided warily, but no one was size was hard to ascertain, because you needed to know their distance Tiny, deadly hornets with a colossal sting. "Robot craft, no doubt," said Knof Llud, but a chill ran down his spine they had explored, but one of the other might have encountered argued a planned and prepared interception with virulent hatred behind "We're under the psychological disadvantage," said the captain, "of not advantage, too!" least we may find out who he is and why he's determined to smash us." repeating on each the same brief recorded message: querying again, "Who are you ?" converting that energy into harmless gravitic impulses was costing the perhaps you can answer some of these riddles before—" " " last. The two other interstellar expeditions that went out have already had already involuntarily told him a couple of things—that it was not to speak at all, and from its last remark he gathered that the something, so vitally that he asked it as a bald question, " "

<question>:
If you had to recommend this reading to someone else, of the following options who do you think would most enjoy it?

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A A sci-fi nerd who loves discovery of alien species and new planets as major tropes
B A sci-fi nerd who loves intense and tragic stories
C A commercial airplane pilot who wishes they were an astronaut
D A sci-fi nerd who loves stories about family and happy endings

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B