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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there isn't a trap, the Karna can't satisfy Braynek, because he's convinced that there has to keep Nordon from getting unconfused. "These two men are honestly doing their best to win at the peace conference, and they've got the Karna reeling. The Karna can see that we're not trying to stall our men are actually working at trying to reach a decision. But what the Karna don't see is that those men, as a team, are unbeatable because, in this situation, they're psychologically incapable of losing." Again the Secretary of State nodded his approval, but there was still Diplomatic Corps who developed a twitch or a quirk was shipped to Saarkkad IV to work under Bertrand know all that, couldn't you have handled it yourself?" "Maybe, but I doubt it. They might showed the complete psychological analysis of the man. Psychopathic Couldn't go, Mr. Ambassador?" if he were faced with two or more calendar just above it. Fifty-nine Somewhere out there, the ships of Earth were ranged against the ships of the alien Karna in the most important war that Mankind had yet fought. it was necessary to keep the drug supply lines flowing from Saarkkad, and that meant keeping on good terms with the Saarkkadic government. The Saarkkada themselves were humanoid to one of them would have meant instant loss of prestige. To their way of thinking, an important official was aloof. The greater his importance, the greater must be handful of picked nobles, who, themselves, were never seen except by their underlings. It was a long, roundabout way of doing business, but it was the social setup of Saarkkad would mean the instant closing off of the supply of biochemical products that the keep the production output high and to keep the materiel flowing towards Earth and her allies and outposts. The job would have been a snap the Saarkkada weren't difficult to get along with. A staff of top-grade men could have handled them without half trying. men. They couldn't be spared from work that required their total capacity. work very well in the total darkness of an infrared-film darkroom. Partial But Malloy didn't like to stop at merely thwarting mental quirks he liked to find places where they were bring it in?" "Bring it in, Miss Drayson." Miss Drayson was a case in point. She was uncommunicative. She liked to gather in information, but she direct order. It had taken Malloy a right—even desirable—for her to keep secrets from everyone except Malloy. ordered to tell someone. through, fighting to keep his emotions in check. Miss Drayson stood you know as soon as I reach a decision, Miss Drayson. I think I hardly need say that no news of this is to was over—at least for a while. He looked down at the papers again. The Karna, slowly being beaten back on every front, were suing for peace. They wanted an armistice conference—immediately. Earth was willing. Interstellar war is too costly to allow it to continue any longer than necessary, and this one had been going on for more than thirteen years now. Peace was necessary. But not peace at any price. The trouble was that the Karna had a reputation for losing wars and winning at the peace table. They were clever, persuasive talkers. They could twist a disadvantage to an advantage, and make their own strengths look like weaknesses. If they won the armistice, they'd be able to retrench and rearm, and the war would break out again within a few years. Now—at this point in time—they could be beaten. They could be forced to allow supervision of the production potential, forced to disarm, rendered impotent. But if the armistice went to their own advantage ... Already, they had taken the offensive in the matter of the peace talks. They had sent a full delegation to the Saarkkad sun, a chilly world inhabited only by low-intelligence animals. The Karna considered this to be fully neutral territory, and Earth couldn't argue the point very well. In addition, they demanded that the conference begin in three days, Terrestrial time. for an armistice. They objected. The Karna pointed out that the Karn as it was from Earth, that it was only a few million miles from a planet which was allied with Earth, armistice. Why hadn't Earth been prepared? Did they intend to fight to the utter destruction of Karn? It wouldn't have been a problem at all if Earth and Karn had fostered the only two intelligent races in the galaxy. The sort of grandstanding the Karna were putting on had to be played to an audience. But there were other intelligent races throughout the galaxy, most of whom had remained as neutral as possible during the Earth-Karn war. They had no intention of sticking their figurative noses into a battle between the two most powerful races in the galaxy. But whoever won the armistice would find that some of the now-neutral races would come in on their side if war broke out again. If the Karna played their cards right, their side would be strong enough next time to win. So Earth had to get a delegation to meet with the Karna representatives within the three-day limit or lose what might be a vital point in the negotiations. And that was where Bertrand Malloy He had been appointed Minister and Plenipotentiary Extraordinary to the Earth-Karn peace conference. He looked up at the ceiling again. "What On the second day after the arrival tell Braynek to wait." Nordon nodded slowly. "Yes, sir." Malloy explained the problem of the Karna peace talks. "We need a man who can outthink them," Malloy finished, "and judging "You'll be leaving within an hour "Not necessarily. He's a pretty shrewd operator, though. He knows a lot about interstellar law, and he's capable of spotting a trap a mile away. to study it and get it into your head before the ship leaves. That isn't much time, but it's the Karna who are doing the pushing, not us." As soon as Nordon had left, Malloy Again Malloy went through the explanation of the peace conference. "Naturally, they'll be trying to trick you every step of the way," Malloy went on. "They're shrewd and underhanded we'll simply have to them. Don't antagonize them, but don't baby them, either. If you see anything underhanded going on, let Nordon know immediately." "They won't get anything by me, Mr. Malloy." By the time the ship from Earth got there, the peace conference had been going on for four days. Bertrand "Tense. They're waiting to see what is going to happen on Five. So good team, instead. Would you like to see the reports?" When Blendwell looked up from the reports at last, he said: "Amazing! They've held off the Karna at every point! They've beaten them back! They've managed to cope with and outdo the finest team of negotiators the Karna could send." "I thought they would," said Malloy, trying to appear modest. Is this one of your ... ah ... successes?" Malloy nodded. "I think so. The Karna put us in a dilemma, so I threw a dilemma right back at them." "How do you mean?" admits of no alternatives, he can't move at all. "As you can see, the Karna tried to give us several choices on each point, and they were all rigged. Until they backed down to a single point and proved that it this was, and the more importance there is attached to his decisions, the more incapable he becomes of making them." The Secretary nodded slowly. thinks everyone is plotting against him. In this case, that's all to the good because the Karna are plotting against him. No matter what they put forth, Braynek is convinced that there's a trap in it somewhere, and he digs to find out what the trap is. Even if

<question>:
Why do the Karna demand the conference begin in three days?

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A There is an immediate threat to the planet of Karn, and the Karna desperately need help from Earth.
B The Karna are hoping to disrupt Earth's supply chain.
C The Karna want to make Earth look bad in the eyes of the other planets.
D The Karna are skilled negotiators and want to control the peace talks.

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D