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 trip to Mars. He was always getting me things like that—appearances on TV shows, or mentions in writers' magazines. If he didn't sell Kroger and Pat, brought us right to Kroger and Pat, whole trip. If there are fights or accidents, 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 (a group of maybe ten, huddling public going along vicariously. "how'll I go about it? A story? An article? A you-are-there But I said where there's life there's hope, and now he won't talk to me. I congratulated Kroger on the lichen I'd seen, but he just said a short and unscientific word and went to sleep. mouthful of teeth. Kroger says the We're either in a docket or a be, or else). pilot, co-pilot, navigator and biochemist. And, of course, me. I've met all but the pilot (he's very 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 safety. Kroger told Pat he was Martian whistled like crazy and dragged it away. We'd end up drowned in some grotto in the heart of the planet, says Kroger. jokes in the washroom with the co-pilot. 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. of scales. The Martian whistled furiously and went away. When the sleeping cycle here), Kroger talked for some reason or other) and then calling numbers over a microphone to the pilot. His hair is red and curly, and he looks as too. So far, all he's said is, "Scram, I'm busy." Kroger tells me that the pilot's . Kroger during blastoff. The inertial gravities didn't bother me so much as the gyroscopic spin they put on the the stream while they're watching us, being careful not to get their lips (all sugar, of course) wet. He (Kroger spelled that word on the way to the galley (the "I don't get it," I said politely, 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 in that medium, they lose all energy I still haven't met the pilot. "So now what do we do?" "We remove our boots," said Kroger, sitting on the ground and Kroger shrugged. "We'll have to to go down fighting than to die of starvation." But there's some kind of a "drag." I told him I hoped it didn't mean place no matter how much we spin. we'd land on Mars upside down. He just stared at me. 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 sounding like a locomotive whistle gone berserk. We made the surface in another Kroger. He said there was a good and Kroger finished his coffee and to stay and that it's urgent to return and tell what we've learned about Mars (we know there are sugar). "Why," I said, "can't we just tell it on the radio?" poem, sort of. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, "Because," said Pat, "if we tell we may be lucky and get a parade." "Maybe even money," said Kroger, whose mind wasn't always them now, by the time we get back we'll be yesterday's news. This way "But they'll ask why we didn't radio the info, sir," said Jones uneasily. accurate, but that I should stick to shortly after landing." prose. Well, it's time for takeoff. Mars, so escape velocity didn't have to be so fast, hence a smoother (relatively) trip on our shock-absorbing bunks. I'll be the one to quit. Kroger is busy in his cramped lab space trying to classify the little . They didn't take as long as I thought they would, except for . Kroger says all those sly digs at the aristocracy, with copious interpolations by Mr. Thackeray in case you didn't get it when he'd pulled a particularly With Martian rime, Venusian slime, Earth for instructions. We can't. Here we are, somewhere in a void headed for Earth, with enough air and water left for maybe three days—if the Martians don't take any more. Kroger is thrilled that he is And a radioactive hoe. Martian reproductive processes. When he told Pat, Pat put it to a vote whether or not to jettison Kroger through the airlock. However, again. We're going to land, so Kroger had only studied them, and Jones had brought them aboard. So Kroger stays, but meanwhile did me at takeoff. Earth seems awfully Kroger put us all into a state time, eight months away. Kroger to wear gas masks with oxygen hook-ups. Kroger says the air is breathable, but thin, and it has too thirsty. Kroger says that at least—when much dust in it to be any fun to inhale. He's all for going out and Air is foul and I'm very to wait. The air is very cold, but the Kroger suggests baking bread, The Martians ate the bread. Jones came forward to tell us the means so are the Martians. Kroger says the Martians must be intelligent, otherwise they and he told Kroger. Kroger says let's jettison Kroger. see the ship again. Kroger said to Kroger, but he got a last-minute reprieve be pulverized and mixed with sulphuric acid. He says this'll produce So does Kroger. for us. The acid-sugar combination not only produces carbon but water vapor, and the gauge has gone up a notch. The air is too thin to carry sound well. masks, but I couldn't hear them. and we voted to let Kroger stay inside to make a landing. Pat says at least our vector will carry us to Earth and we can die on our home planet, which is better than perishing in space. The hell it is. Kroger?" Kroger says watch out. "Water must be dangerous to Pat and Kroger haven't come in a descending spiral into one of than a submarine, he insists, and it will float till we're rescued, if the plates don't crack under the impact. "Who knows what's 'menacing' in an alien?" We're going to look for Kroger when they're startled. Their attitudes aren't menacing, but their Kroger says he must have dissolved the jeep to follow the aliens' region on Earth. Kroger tried to explain to me about salinity osmosis and hydrostatic pressure and crystalline life, but in no time at all from Mars. Needless to say, we're no longer and Kroger and I were allowed to sign on for the flight to Venus scheduled within the next few days—because of our experience. Kroger says there's only enough fuel for a one-way trip. I don't care.

<question>:
What's ironic about the narrator's and Kroger's decision to sign on for the flight scheduled to Venus?

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A The narrator is going to fabricate more events to make his story sound appealing to the general public
B They have the least amount of technical experience compared to the other members of the Martian crew
C They were permitted to attend due to their 'experience,' but their experience created a major crisis on Earth
D The narrator's deadpan tone is not likely to convey the true excitement of the Venusian journey

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C