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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SECOND LANDING By FLOYD WALLACE A gentle fancy for the Christmas Season—an that left the Earth with a wing and a prayer. Earth isolation could endure forever. Instruments within the ship intercepted radio broadcasts and, and grammars and began translating the major languages. The history of the planet was tabulated as facts became available. it was not much out of the way to swing nearer Earth. For days the two within the ship listened and watched with little soon. "We've got to make or break," said the first alien. "You know what I'm in favor of," said the second. each other—and invent better weapons." "It's not what they've done," said Bal, the second alien. "It's what they're going to do, with that big bomb." our help they may do just that." "I may remind you that in two months twenty-nine days we're go." "A week," said Ethaniel. "We can spare a week and still get there on time." "A week?" said Bal. "To settle their problems? They've had two world wars in one generation and that the third and final one in everything they do." "It won't take much," said "Too bad," said Bal. "We'll just have to forget there ever was such a planet as Earth." "Could you? Forget so many people?" "I'm doing it," said Bal. "Just give them a little time and they won't be here to remind me that to look at them." Bal rustled, flicking the screen intently. "Very much like ourselves," quite odd, they seem exactly like "It is. The fact that they are we can do about it." "There is. We can give them a week." "In a week we can't negate "We can look things over." "And then what? How much we'll be busy. It will be a long time before anyone comes this way again." "A very long time. There's nothing in this region of space our people want," said Ethaniel. "And how long can Earth last? Ten years? Even ten months? The tension is building by the Earth, not intending to commit themselves. For a day they circled the planet, avoiding radar detection, which for them was not difficult, testing, and sampling. "I know." "We also knew they could deliver There's so little time," Ethaniel said. "Language isn't the difficulty. Our machines translate their languages easily and I've taken a cram course in two or listening to advertisements, music, and news bulletins. I should go down and live among them, read books, talk to scholars, work with them, play." "You could do that and you'd really get to know them. But that takes time—and we don't have it." "I realize that." can do for them—but we have to try." "Sure, I knew it before we find out what a people are like and when we can't help them we feel bad. It's going to be that "Well, give me an hour to think of some way of going at It was longer than that before they met again. In the meantime the ship moved much closer to Earth. They no longer needed instruments to see it. The planet revolved outside the visionports. "Yes. It's their winter." "I did have an idea," said Bal. beings?" hundred years ago it might have worked. Today they have satellites. They are not primitives." "I suppose you're right," said what they'll have to do if they're going to survive, how they can keep their planet in one piece so they can live on it." "That'll go over big. Advice is always popular." "Can't help it. That's all we have time for." "Special instructions?" "None. We leave the ship here and go down in separate landing craft. You can talk with me any time you want to through our communications, but don't unless you have to." them to think that we don't need to talk things over." "I get it. Makes us seem better than we are. They think we know exactly what we're doing even though we don't." "If we're lucky they'll think that." Bal looked out of the port at the planet below. "It's going to be cold where I'm going. You too. Sure we don't want to change hemisphere? It's summer do the job." "Yeah, but I was thinking of that holiday you mentioned. We'll be running straight into it. That won't help us any." "I know, they don't like their holidays interrupted. It can't be helped. We can't wait until it's over." "I'm aware of that," said Bal. "Fill me in on that holiday, anything I ought to know. Probably religious in origin. That so?" learn anything exact from radio and TV. Now it seems to be chiefly a time for eating, office parties, and selling merchandise." "I see. It has become a business holiday." "That's a good description. I didn't get as much of it as I ought to have. I was busy studying the people, and they're hard "I see. I was thinking there might be some way we could tie ourselves in with this holiday. Make it work for us." "If there is I haven't thought about. Down there, alone." "I'll be with you. On the other side of the Earth." "That's not very close. I'd like it better if there were someone in the ship to bring it down in a hurry if things get rough. They don't think much of each other. I don't imagine they'll like aliens any better." "They may be unfriendly," It was snowing and men were cutting small green trees in where there's little chance it will be seen, we'll make sure that they do see it. Let's take it around to the night side of the planet and light it up." "Say, pretty good," said Bal. light up an unmanned ship," said Ethaniel. "Even if the thought should occur to them they'll have no way of checking it. Also, they won't be eager to harm us with the ship over where they can see it best and then I'll light it up. "Don't spare power." "Don't worry about that. They'll see it. Everybody on Earth will see it." Later, with the ship in position, glowing against the darkness of space, pulsating with light, Bal said: "You know, I feel better about this. We may pull it off. Lighting the ship may be just the help we need." "It's not we who need help, but the people of Earth," said Ethaniel. "See you in five days." With that he entered a small landing craft, which left a faintly luminescent Earth. As soon as it was safe to do so, Bal left in another craft, heading for the other side of the planet. And the spaceship circled Earth, unmanned, blazing and winter skies of the planet below could equal it in brilliancy. Once a man-made satellite came near seldom, had Earth seen anything like it. In five days the two small landing craft that had left it arched up from Earth and joined the orbit of the large ship. The two small craft slid inside the large one and doors closed behind them. In a short time the aliens met again. "We did it," said Bal exultantly seemed to be a good idea," said Ethaniel. "If I went out walking one day I noticed that the next agreement they made isn't the best but I think it will keep them from destroying themselves." "It's as much as we can expect," said Ethaniel. "They may have small wars after this, but never the big one. In fifty or a hundred years we can come back and see how much they've learned." always cold. I walked out, but sometimes I flew back. I hope that was all right." bound to resemble ours." "Sure," said Bal. "Anyway, peace on Earth." THE END Transcriber's Note:

<question>:
What is the connection between the aliens in the present holiday?

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A The holiday allows the aliens to study the economic impact of holidays.
B The timing of this trip allows the aliens to see an important holiday first hand.
C The aliens happen to fit the image many humans have of this holiday.
D The holiday means that there are more people off of work to interact with for the aliens to learn from.

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C