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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"Racially, there should be a chance," she said. "Actually, Kelburn and I would be infertile." She got up and came to him. She nuzzled against him and his reaction was purely reflexive. His hand swung out and he could feel the flesh give when his knuckles struck it. blood and pain." She pushed her nose back into place and waggled it to make sure. She ages before space travel— and yet each planetary race can interbreed He scowled miserably at her. Her face was almost plain and the bandage, lot more!" "It is impressive," admitted Taphetta. "But I find it mildly distasteful to consider mating with someone who does not belong to my species." "That's because you're unique," said Halden. "Outside of your own much, though. You're just right." He sat down on the bed. Again there was only one way of knowing what Emmer would do—and she knew. She had no concept of love outside of the physical, to make use of her body so as to gain an advantage—what advantage?—for the children she intended to have. Outside of that, nothing mattered, and for the sake of alloying the lower with the higher, she was as cruel to herself as she was to him. And yet he Emmer's side. Meredith, linguist, is on the other side of the middle. wanted her. you in spite of everything. But you'll have to watch out whose children "I do think I love you," she said. "And if love's enough, I may marry I have." She wriggled into his arms. The racial disparity was great and she had provoked him, but it was not a corresponding span of fertility. Emmer just misses being able to breed with my kind, but there's a fair chance that I'd be fertile with Meredith and a similar though lesser chance that her fertility may Besides what? She had a beautiful body that could bear superior children—and they might be his. extend to Kelburn." completely her fault. Besides.... toward the highest goal they could conceive of? Climbing over—no, through —everybody they could coerce, seduce or marry—onward and "Something had to distribute one species so widely and it's not the result of parallel evolution—not when a hundred human races are involved, and only the human race." about himself." It was easy to understand the attitude. Man was the most numerous others—and humans were more than a little feared. If they ever got together—but they hadn't except in agreement as to their common origin. Still, Taphetta the Ribboneer was an experienced pilot and could be very useful. A clear statement of their position was essential in "Vaguely. Most people have if they've been around men." "We've got new data and are able to interpret it better. The theory is that humans who can mate with each other were once physically close. We've got a list of all our races arranged in sequence. If planetary "To the best of our knowledge," said Kelburn. "And whereas there are humans who are relatively near and not fertile, they can always mate with those they were adjacent to two hundred thousand years ago satisfies the calculations?" "Plus or minus a hundred thousand years, we can still get something Halden flushed the sarcasm wasn't necessary. It was true that Kelburn was the most advanced human type present, but while there were differences, biological and in the scale of intelligence, it wasn't as great as once was thought. Anyway, non-humans weren't trained in the fine distinctions that men made among themselves. And, higher or lower, he was as good a biologist as the other was a mathematician. And there was the matter of training invisible or not, didn't improve her appearance any. How could he still respect. The Ribboneer shifted his attention. "Aside from the sudden illness of feel that attraction to her? your pilot, why did you ask for me?" "Try Emmer," he suggested tiredly. "He'll find you irresistible, and he's even more savage than I am." "Is he?" She smiled enigmatically. "Maybe, in a biological sense. Too exception of mankind. Actually, the four of us here, though it's "I'm complimented that you like our contract so well," said Taphetta, for me. And you can tell the ship to go on without me." He rubbed his eyes off Meredith, though, since he was a notch or so above her in the mating scale, he shouldn't have been so interested. But his planet had Disdainfully, Meredith adjusted a skirt that, a few inches shorter, And beyond her, toward the far end, is Kelburn, mathematician. There's "Then change it to suit him. He's in charge of the ship and knows more "More than a man?" Firmon leered at Meredith and, when she failed "I'll come along and help," said Meredith, untwining her legs and that the crew was calling her that! "Pests on the ship? It's filthy! My people would never tolerate it!" humans—late or early and male or female—look remarkably alike. If you are an archeologist, that's enough for me." He paused and flicked his they visited so many of that type, yet different from it because they never stayed. They were pretty special people themselves, big and long-lived, and maybe they couldn't survive on any planet they found. for non-humans, that the race stuck together. They weren't actually aggressive, but their total number was great and they held themselves aloof. The unknown ancestor again. Who else had such an origin and, it contract and the one we offered you? Our terms are more liberal." "To the individual, they are, but it won't matter if you discover as much as you think you will. The difference is this: My terms don't would have to be shared. That was what Taphetta had been afraid of—there was one kind of "Why do we have to watch it on the screen?" asked Meredith, glancing and the small one tried to flee. In a few jumps, the big one caught up and mauled the other unmercifully. "It was realistic enough," said Meredith as the crewmen shut off their "Did we? I didn't notice." Meredith leaned back. "Were the puppets "Very good. I never thought of that," said Meredith, coming closer. "I that, in relation to her, he was not advanced. "It's almost a curse, isn't it?" She laughed and took the curse away by leaning provocatively against him. "But barbaric lovers are often nice." Here we go again, he thought drearily, sliding his arm around her. To her, I'm merely a passionate savage. They went to his cabin. She sat down, smiling. Was she pretty? Maybe. For her own race, she long and well shaped and her face was somewhat bland and featureless, except for a thin, straight, short nose. It was her eyes that made the difference, he decided. A notch or two up the scale of visual development, her eyes were larger and she could see an extra color on the violet end of the spectrum. She settled back and looked at him. "It might be fun living with you on The conflict was not new nor confined to them. In one form or another, it governed personal relations between races that were united against non-humans, but held sharp distinctions themselves. "I haven't asked you to marry me," he said bluntly. "Because you're afraid I'd refuse." permanent union. "Why did you ever have anything to do with me?" demanded Halden. "Love," she said gloomily. "Physical attraction. But I can't let it lead me astray." "Why not make a play for Kelburn? If you're going to be scientific like him and he wouldn't marry me." "He wouldn't, but he'd give you children if you were humble enough. There's a fifty per cent chance you might conceive."

<question>:
How do you think Meredith feels about the rest of the crew?

<options>:
A She has a close bond of respect and (platonic) love for the rest of the members
B She respects and loves one person the most
C She's become friends with them slowly over time and appreciates them all
D She respects one person the most and loves another person the most

<answer>:

D