Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
on Mars along to write up the first trip to Mars. He was always getting sandy, but handkerchiefs over nose and mouth solve this. We look like desperadoes, what trip), and the air's only a little bit a return me cliff walls. Swell luck for Kroger. We've found Kroger and Pat, with the help of the aliens. Or maybe I should call them the Martians. Either way, it's better than what Jones calls them. them they want the human slant me about them." "Nonsense," said Louie, sipping carefully at a paper cup of scalding 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 make it a gift to Martian archeologists? There's a Martian guarding the on the screen today. It seems to be Mars. And I kept a diary. This is They picked the launching Trip time is supposed to take we're aimed toward where Mars And, of course, me. I've met all but the pilot (he's very other. A little Martian came near is rather old to take the "rigors of the journey," as he puts it, but the . stand the trip or an accomplished man who would probably not survive, safety. Kroger told Pat he was crazy, that the little island we're on so they picked Kroger. We've fast river that goes into the planet. We'd end up drowned in some grotto in the heart of the planet, says Kroger. "What the hell," says Pat, "it's better than starving." I didn't quite catch his first name) is scarlet-faced, barrel-chested and gives the general appearance of belonging It is not. skinny, but his skin is tan as an Indian's, down. A Martian threw a stone at of scales. The Martian whistled void headed for Earth, with enough and then calling numbers over a air and water left for maybe three is red and curly, and he looks as though he'd be tall if he ever gets to stand up. There are freckles on microphone to the pilot. His hair in his fist. Or what was left of the scales. They had melted down in the water and left his hand all cold water, with the scales gripped said that the Martian metabolism outside of their bodies, in the form of scales. He's gravity to hold us against the curved floor. It's that constant whirly feeling that gets me. I get now and then suck up water from the stream while they're watching (all sugar, of course) wet. He guesses that their "blood" must be almost pure water, and that it washes away (from the inside, of course) the sugar they need for "How about a game sometime?" water) to make sugar, a common carbohydrate. tall and does Like plants, on Earth, he said. that he is on the way to the galley (the kitchen) for a cup of dark brown did me at takeoff. Earth seems awfully coffee (they like it thick) and told "They have a twofold reason to fear water. One: by complete solvency in that medium, they lose all energy and die. Two: even partial sprinkling screen, and they still need it for steering or something. "So now what do we do?" and close-set jet-black eyes that make him look rather mean, but he and spray "Which tunnel do we take?" it that Pat said was the Earth. those teeth of theirs. They must 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. The Martians we'd land on Mars upside down. He out of a carton. Right now we're using buttons for men. He's one of the Martians get bigger—they'll stream (the Martians had probably thought they were beyond recovery to wait. The air is very cold, but the break out the stores and have a celebration feast just outside the on Mars?" about Mars (we know there are poem, sort of. 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 Lloyd, "was unfortunately broken He wrote something in the ship's shortly after landing." Mars, so escape velocity didn't Vanity Fair , Pride and Prejudice , War and Peace be the one to quit. Kroger is busy in his cramped lab space trying to classify the little , the Wind , and Babbitt Gone with moss he was able to gather, and . 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. . Kroger says there are two baby Martians loose (AFAR) system. And the water gauges are going down. But the clincher is those two sugar to go. I saw Mars when we were in that zoo. They're gone. Pat has declared a state of emergency. Quick thinking, that's Pat. Lloyd, before he remembered and crystals Lloyd had grabbed up descending from overhead, but Pat says that that's the "torque" doing it. Actually, it's we who are coming Here we are, somewhere in a days—if the Martians don't take any more. Kroger is thrilled that he is Mars has Martian reproductive processes. filled. Looks like Death Valley. No sign of canals, but Pat says that's because of the dust storm down below. It's nice to have a "down below" again. We're going to land, so I have to go to my bunk. It's all the whole screen the air is getting worse. Pat suggested Kroger put us all into a state of suspended animation till landing Well, we're down. We have to wear gas masks with oxygen Air is foul and I'm very thirsty. Kroger says that at least—when hook-ups. Kroger says the air is breathable, but thin, and it has too Pat says what do we do inhale. He's all for going out and looking for lichen, but Pat says he's can't afford the water we need to melt them down. Besides, the much dust in it to be any fun to all turn into little Martians. Jones says he'll go down spitting. ? We Pat says why not dismantle interior The Martians After maybe ten steps, the rocket Kroger says the Martians must a lifelong diet of anthracite. Pat says let's jettison Kroger. be pulverized and mixed with sulphuric acid. He says this'll produce The air is too thin to carry sound well. me. I was too scared to turn around, but finally Jones and Lloyd Worse and worse . Lloyd to make a landing. on our home planet, which is better under our noses. Kroger says watch out. We are made of carbohydrates, too. I'd rather not have known. Pat and Kroger haven't come Earth fills the screen in the back yet, either. in a descending spiral into one of the oceans. The rocket is tighter than a submarine, he insists, and it will float till we're rescued, if when they're startled. Their attitudes aren't menacing, but their blasted off, though, and he's still and Pat today. Jones says we'd better before another windstorm blows the "captured Martian" leaked out, and we all became nine-day wonders until the dismantling of the on a Martian. those red-scaled things began clambering out of the sea on every coastal region on Earth. Kroger tried and hydrostatic pressure and crystalline life, but in no time at all he lost me. over this and the far edge like pink silk cataracts. The bottom is in the and right now he's telling from Mars. Needless to say, we're no longer heroes. I haven't heard from Pat or Lloyd for a week. Jones was picked Well, we're at the bottom, and Going down was Jones' idea, not mine. there's water here, a shallow stream

<question>:
Which term best describes the narrator's attitude toward writing up the first trip to Mars?

<options>:
A ambivalent
B apprehensive
C resentful
D downtrodden

<answer>:

B