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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Transcriber's Note: in the artificially warmed city. They entered an elevator The Cosmic Express subway rider gasp with amazement. The for parks between the mighty COSMIC EXPRESS flowers, and no one had time to and The Alien Intelligence in Eric now recognized as a prominent the machine now. Russian diplomat from Moscow to Rio de Janeiro.... Two hundred seventy in a rousing trio of space service. Regular installations all over the world in a year.... this is just an experimental Ready now. Come on in." One Against the Legion. operas , The Legion of Space, The present tense, he assumed the the half-hidden machine, spoke courteously. The Cosmic Express Hope you found the transit pleasant." "But my Violet! My precious Violet!" a shrill female voice "All right, madam. Walk out. came from the machine. "Sir, what have you done with my is of special wireless transmission of matter is the next big transportation frontier to be conquered. It is of wonders, and proceed with the story. With only a few thousand scanning-disk television sets in existence at the time of the writing, the surmise that this The "And now what can I do for you, Eric?" "We want to go to Venus, if that ray of yours can put us there." "To Venus? Impossible. My orders are to use the Express merely between the sixteen designated stations, at New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, London, Paris—" for the sake of survival on the panel. "Sure, old boy. I'd send you to By which I mean that it is the Venus—I've been amusing myself, watching the life there, already. Terrible place. Savage. I set you down. But I can't be responsible for what happens afterward." "Simple, primitive life is what where Nada, his pretty bride, do I owe you—" "Oh, that's all right. Between friends. Provided that stuff's sides. Don't move." open again, and Eric led Nada with mirrors and vast prisms and lenses and electron tubes. In the center was a slab of transparent crystal, eight feet square Eric helped Nada to a place "I think the Express Ray is "Think I've got it for you. Sort of a high island in the jungle. 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? blizzard was sweeping. But small concern was that to the lightly With another yawn, Mr. Eric Nada and Eric felt themselves The "At last!" Nada cried. "We're not parasites on the machines." from modern civilization. His Eric. You're just like one of the heroes in your books!" hero was likely to be an ape-man Nada.... But now we roaring through the jungle, with the vanishing hero of "You're the perfect companion, marooned with a lovely woman on a desert South Sea island. the television. "We'll find a nice dry cave, and have a fire in front of the royalties, and subconsciously Eric had settled down to the nature had left them even a single fragment of quartz, to say nothing of a mass of pure tripping into the study, gay and Nada stopped. "Eric," she resolved to forget that his next panel—a simple way of ordering breakfast sent up the automatic shaft from the kitchens below. Nada Stokes-Harding was also hunting in the virgin forest, and They resumed the weary march, with a good fraction of the new planet adhering to their feet. Rain was still falling from the dark heavens in a steady, were extinct, there were no wild dear?" "Matches! Of course not! We're going back to Nature." bother about sunsets. in this little flat, away from the things we both love?" "Yes, dear. Civilization has "Eric, darling," she said, "isn't it terrible to be cooped up here He confessed to a few pangs of flowers." "If we could only go somewhere—" "There isn't anywhere to go. I write about the West, Africa, South Sea Islands. But they were all filled up two hundred years ago. Pleasure resorts, sanatoriums, cities, factories." "If only we lived on Venus! I was listening to a lecture on the television, last night. The speaker said that the Planet Venus is younger than the Earth, that it has not cooled so much. It has a thick, cloudy atmosphere, "Buck up," Eric advised her. Earth had before civilization ruined it." ray telescope, that penetrates the cloud layers of the planet, proved that Venus rotates in about the same period as Earth and it must be much like threatening to demolish it. Swarms of mosquito-like insects, seemingly not inconvenienced in swarmed about them in the least by the inclement elements, this hateful civilization, and live natural lives. Maybe a rocket—" Nada clung against Eric. The clouds. or something of the sort. This world seems to be in about the same state as the Earth when bringing the game home to you! But I'm afraid there is no way.—Wait! The Cosmic Express." "The Cosmic Express?" "A new invention. Just perfected a few weeks ago, I understand. they flourished there.... But maybe it won't find us." "I've quit bothering about science. It has ruined nature, filled the world with silly, artificial "Eric," a thin voice trembled. radium atom, making helium shrieks. Mighty splashes, as if oceans. Thunderous crashes, as Eric and Nada clung to each the new Cosmic Express, is simply to convert the matter to be carried into power, send it out with pride. "But the method, in atoms at the destination." "But the amount of energy ones. The Express Ray is an humans. Nada burst even the Cosmic Ray, and correspondingly get any recognizable object, not even how they get the radiation moments later, they were lying on the transparent table in the Cosmic Express office, with all on the plate—just the same as the Express Ray picks up an object and sets it down on the other side of the world. "So sorry—an accident—inconceivable. "An analogy from television "Why—what—what—" our operator drunk. I've no idea where he got the stuff. He muttered something about Venus. I consulted the auto-register, and found two more passengers registered of the Express Ray moves slowly are accurately reproduced at the looked up the duplicate beam coordinates, might be in Venus! been set on Venus. I got men on the television at once, and we happened to find you. "But the analogy of the lens is the better of the two. For no and found that it had other focus of the instrument—which receiving instrument is required, as in television. The object is built up of an infinite series of up, and the 'dry-laws' are on the excessive damages." with radio apparatus because even with the best beam transmission, all but a tiny fraction "No, I ask nothing except that you don't press charges against spouse, after they had washed off the grime of another planet. He spent the next twelve hours delivered his promised story to his publishers, a thrilling tale of a man marooned on Venus, with a beautiful girl. The hero made stone tools, erected a dwelling She ran back to Eric, who was at his typewriter. "Oh, darling! I'm thrilled to death about the Cosmic Express! If we could go to Venus, to a new life on a new world, and get away from all this hateful conventional society—" "We can go to their office—it's only five minutes. The chap He's not supposed to take passengers they have scattered about the world. But I know his weak point—" Eric laughed, fumbled with a

<question>:
Why does the Cosmic Express official assume Eric and Nada are the victims of the situation?

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A The official is more concerned about the drunk operator, given that alcohol is outlawed. It does not occur to the official that anyone would request to be sent to Venus.
B There are only 16 designated Cosmic Express destinations, and Venus is not one of them.
C The official knows Eric and Nada should be arrested but does not want the situation to become a scandal.
D The Venus colony has not built a receiving station.

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A