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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the stream, so we're following the angle on this trip ... but what got me the job of going along to write up the first me things like that—appearances on TV shows, or mentions in writers' magazines. If he didn't sell much of my stuff, at least he sold me . writer ever got," he told me, two days before blastoff. "Oh, sure there'll be scientific reports on the trip, but the public doesn't want them they want the human slant on things." all black with white dots in it, and (a group of maybe ten, huddling about them." "Nonsense," said Louie, sipping carefully at a paper cup of scalding coffee. "It'll be just like the public going along vicariously. They'll identify with you." smell, but it's richer in oxygen "how'll I go about it? A story? An article? A you-are-there type of report? What?" asked me what the hell I kept writing in the diary for, did I want to "But what if nothing happens?" make it a gift to Martian archeologists? Louie shrugged. "So keep a and neither can anyone else. Jones a short and unscientific word and went to sleep. entrance to our cave. I don't know what they intend to do with us. Feed us, I hope. So far, they've just left us here, and we're out of rations. They picked the launching Mars. And I kept a diary. This is "We'll risk it," said Pat. "It's better we're aimed toward where Mars in a docket or a 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 in the heart of the planet, says and right now he's telling "What the hell," says Pat, "it's Kroger. I'm hungry . So is everybody else. Right now I could eat a dinner raw, in a centrifuge, and keep it gives the general appearance of belonging tree, not in a metal bullet flinging (they call it the bulkhead, in his fist. Or what was left of the studied them in the uncertain light, then tasted them and grinned. energy on the outside of their bodies, in the form of scales. He's gravity to hold us against the the gyroscopic spin they put on the now and then suck up water from the stream while they're watching us, being careful not to get their lips guesses that their "blood" must be almost pure water, and that it washes away (from the inside, of course) the sugar they need for energy. their bodies isolated carbon from something (he thought it might be the hydrogen and oxygen in the I knew the formula for water) to make sugar, a common carbohydrate. Like plants, on Earth, he said. Except, instead of using special cells on leaves to form carbohydrates interview wasn't wasted. I learned that he is as Earth plants do in photosynthesis shape of the with the help of sunpower, scales like prisms, to isolate the first name) has been up with the coffee (they like it thick) and told "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 Top Secret. They'd have to cover it so I could look out the viewing screen, and they still need it for steering or something. to form more sugar, and still die, if a bit slower." "So now what do we do?" and die. Two: even partial sprinkling alters the shape of the scales, Also, I am one of the first five men in the history of the world to thought of escape. Kroger shrugged. "We'll have to it that Pat said was the Earth. always follow it back and start again." chance taking any that seem to those teeth of theirs. They must be for biting something more substantial circle that Pat says is a "torque" result from the gyroscopic spin the image of space locked into place no matter how much we spin. to go down fighting than to die of starvation." The hell it is. we're in. Actually, he explained to me, the screen is supposed to keep That's what they use those 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 on it. buttons for men. He's one of these fast players who don't stop and think out their moves. And so misunderstood and said, "A good chance of liking what to stay and that it's urgent to return and tell what we've learned about Mars (we know there are "Why," I said, "can't we just tell poem, sort of. "Because," said Pat, "if we tell we may be lucky and get a parade." "Maybe even money," said it may prove to be environmentally accurate, but that I should stick to Kroger, whose mind wasn't always on science. "But they'll ask why we didn't prose. radio the info, sir," said Jones uneasily. He wrote something in the ship's first name. I've skipped over the last 177 days or so, because there's nothing much new. I brought some books with me on the trip, books that I'd always meant to read and never had the time. So now I know all about Vanity Fair , Pride and Prejudice , War and Peace , have to be so fast, hence a smoother (relatively) trip on our shock-absorbing Gone with the white specks revolve on that Vanity Fair . 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. says that that's the "torque" doing Here we are, somewhere in a void headed for Earth, with enough any more. Kroger is thrilled that he is learning something, maybe, about the whole screen Martian reproductive processes. When he told Pat, Pat put it to a it was decided that responsibility hook-ups. Kroger says the air is breathable, but thin, and it has too much dust in it to be any fun to inhale. He's all for going out and looking for lichen, but Pat says he's Pat says what do we do have to show themselves. then can't afford the water we need to melt them down. Besides, the all turn into round and smooth. it turns to carbon, and we can use the carbon in the AFAR system. be intelligent, otherwise they couldn't have guessed at the carbohydrates present in the bread after a lifelong diet of anthracite. Pat says let's jettison Kroger. carbon. for us. The well. in their hands, and they started the rocket. . The other So we followed the wheel tracks for a while, and they veered off from my trail and followed another, very much like the one that had been thing. We are made of carbohydrates, too. I'd Earth fills the screen in the We're not alone here. More of in a descending spiral into one of We all agreed to try it. Not that we thought it had a good chance of working, but none of us had a better idea. I guess you know the rest of the story, about how that destroyer until the dismantling of the what that would do. There are a deep crevice in the ground. Seems to be an earthquake-type split in solid rock, with the sand sifting Going down was Jones' idea, Well, we're at the bottom, and about thirty feet wide that runs few days—because of our experience. Kroger says there's only enough fuel for a one-way trip. I don't care. I've always wanted to travel with the President. print to print. And they're barefoot, too, or else they have the damnedest-looking shoes in creation.

<question>:
What is the central theme of the story?

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A Curiosity can cross dangerous boundaries, and lack of curiosity can blind one's self to those boundaries
B Whatever we are addicted to will end up consuming us, if we allow it
C Working together as a team is more advantageous than taking an individualistic approach
D People, in general, are only interested in content if they find relevance or opportunity for personal gain

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A