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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turn Ledman over to the authorities. HUNTED "I never bothered to find out their names," Ledman said casually. "They were other Geigs I caught unawares, like you, out on the desert. That's the only sport I have left—Geig-hunting. Look out there." we dump this guy I'm sacking in for twenty hours, and then die out here on Mars is to we're going back out there to He gestured through the and quitting you can find "Let's keep moving," I told Val. "The surest way to The planet itself was tough enough—barren, desolate, forbidding it off as occupational hazards. There had been a pattern of disappearances on the desert. I could think of six, eight which he had entrapped us, that some grease monkey back at the Dome was at fault—whoever it was who had failed make close friends out here. But we'd vowed it wouldn't happen to us. enough to stop the most adventurous and But no she blamed it all on me somehow: So we were out walking on the spongy sand of the Martian desert. We'd been walking a good eight hours. "Can't we turn back now, thought all his kind had died at the time of the atomic wars. "No," Ledman said evenly. If you Mars. Eventually I'll scare you all away." "Just pick us off in the desert?" "Exactly," replied Ledman. "And I have no fears of an think I'm backing down now "Come on, kid. Remember—we're doing this for Earth. We're heroes." since I landed here on Mars." "What are you going to do an envoy, to go back and tell the others to clear off." He her. We had wandered fruitlessly over the red sands all rocked back and forth in his I found myself fervently wishing I was back out there on the infinitely safer desert. "Do I shock you?" he asked. "I shouldn't—not when Even though the Martian "We're not heroes—we're suckers! Why did I ever let You're on Mars hunting uranium, you volunteer for the Geig Corps and drag me along?" Which wasn't anywhere I nodded over at our geiger counters. "We volunteered to come to Mars," Val said irrelevantly. "Ah—two young heroes," Ledman said acidly. "How coming to Mars to help in the much inflamed by the idea of We knew the pay was poor, but we had felt it a sort of obligation, something we search for uranium as I was. foot, both of us. No, we had decided together to come to Mars—the way we decided together on "I was there on business at the time," Ledman said. "I represented Ledman Atomics. I was there to sign a new contract for my company. You know who I am, now?" that meant we had found pay-dirt. I started to feel tired to lie down on the soft, spongy Martian sand and bury myself. Mars, until I recalled that I had nothing to do with it." "You're just in this by accident," he said. "You see, after We the board of Ledman Atomics decided that a semi-basket case like myself was a poor said. "The others did, too." and they took my company away. All quite legal, I assure you. They left me almost a we could go. I stopped, slipped out of "They renamed Ledman title than Ledman for years then I came to Mars, lost myself, built this moment she was fast asleep, sprawled out on the sands. Poor kid , I thought. Maybe we shouldn't have come to Mars after all. But, I reminded the job. A second thought appeared, but I squelched it: He rolled over to a wall table and fumbled in a container me into a walking pin-cushion. But I'll pay it all back," he said. He plunged struggle that was Mars. wasn't seriously worried about his threat to wipe out we wanted to keep what we had. Heroes? Hell, no. We just liked our comforts, and the entire Geig Corps, since wanted to keep them. Which same way I did. "Do you really think you can succeed?" I taunted him. every Earthman on Mars? Of The Geig Corps preferred married couples, working in cut me off. But Ledman "Yes! I'll get even with every one of you for taking away my legs! If we hadn't I glanced at the suit-chronometer. Getting late. I decided wearying journey across the empty desert. was. But I had to get Ledman It wasn't Martians that any Martians, hadn't been for That did it. Ledman hadn't Earthman who had bound us. and saw a helmeted figure above us. He wasn't wearing glued-in instantly. Ledman the customary skin-tight pliable wore an outmoded, bulky spacesuit and a fishbowl helmet, all but the face area oxysuits we had. He Ledman clawed his way to odd. I thought I knew everyone on sparsely-settled Mars. Somehow I'd missed him. What shocked me most was spacesuit ended neatly at the to. But how?" and a very efficient-looking blaster was in his right. "I didn't want to disturb your sleep," he said coldly. "So I've been waiting here for you to wake up." I could just see it. He might have been sitting there for hours, complacently waiting to see how we'd wake up. That was when I realized he I looked uneasily at Ledman. "You'll find out soon enough," he said. "Suppose now you come with me." He across the floor to Ledman, Then I turned and faced Ledman. sent back to Earth." "They'll help you on Earth. I've never seen this guy before, and I thought I knew everyone at the Dome." called, and we stopped talking. We trudged along together, with him following behind off for Mars without a moment's delay, didn't you? You hated Earth so much you to leave." where we were going, and why. I wondered why we had "Because if you'd stayed long enough, you'd have used some of your pension money ever left Earth. and the only way to get them was to get out and look. The Ledman scowled, and then "Why are you telling all this to me?" to buy yourself a pair of prosthetic I had no muscles to fit them to." "You left Earth too quickly," Val said. "It was the only way," he protested. "I had to get off—" and London and all the other ruined cities had been hidden by a shining new world of gleaming towers and flying of New York and Shanghai except you. You were so sick you had to get away from the world you despised and come here." he'd killed twelve Geigs—or more—and would on Mars. With every Ledman," I said. "All this time you could have been happy, useful on Earth, instead of being holed up here Sea-Dredge was trying to get might have been useful, on Earth. But you decided to "I still don't believe it—those legs. I might have walked again. No—no, it's all a lie. So, Mars. There's not much uranium on Mars, and it's not "Of course not," I said. I gave Val the blaster and slipped Mars, combing for its uranium deposits. And here we are, I thought. After we walked on a out of my oxysuit. out on the face of Enter the Geig Corps: volunteers desert. Just out of the way enough to escape observation. For a puzzled moment I Ledman was sobbing. "Okay, Ledman," I said. Ledman." He herded us off to Gregory Ledman the killer Ledman." I turned to Val. dried-up mask. He was a man Ledman had caught us, I remembered who hated. been out on the desert. I realized now that I had been driving her mercilessly—me, with how tired Val had and I put Ledman know the whole story," he "Let's get back to the Dome

<question>:
How did Ledman get to Mars?

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A He saved his money to send himself
B He joined the Corps just as Val and Ron did
C He was part of a uranium company who funded his trip
D He posed as a tourist and stayed behind on a vacation

<answer>:

A