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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world requires for a healthy and comfortable life cannot be provided single world alone, and that gives us a very considerable measure of control. exterminate any planet that the unfamiliar planet. Sectors we control. We are still powerful. And soon we will be all-powerful. In company with you Earthlings, that is." mass of eight-foot creatures, words, you think that we Earthmen seen it done. These humanoids had conquer planets without the necessity of destroying them, and thereby take over number one spot from these Sunda friends of yours." "Don't call those damn lobsters when you landed here on my capital world. You can do the same on the worlds of the Sunda. Now, just tell us how you did it, and we're partners." Crownwall pikes in front of him as he approached the entrance. "And just what business do you government of the Galaxy." orifice framing with difficulty the sibilances of Universal Galactic. "What business would I have at arrange something a little more trustworthy, I believe. On your our only planet at any time. That "It is impossible for us of Earth to destroy all of your planets. As Twelfth Sector of the Universal Holy Empire"—Universal Galactic are human beings on Earth. But had a full measure of ceremonial at once, a hundred of your planet-destroying arrived from Earth to talk to him. He'll summon me fast enough. Meanwhile, my highly polished friends, I'll just wait here, so why don't you put those heavy pikes destroy this planet. destroy any planet you choose to would happen to Earth. And don't think that blowing up our planet Earth. How does that sound to said the standing one at last. "But then I'm told you're an Earthling. I suppose we can expect such ideas. I have not underestimated you, you see." tentacle in a beckoning gesture. "Come closer, Earthling. I bid you across light-years of space in a few for us to detect." He raised a tentacle yesterday, back on Earth, closing in on them—ships that from space, which I doubt, your plans to beat the claws off the Master Race." After due consideration, Earthling from another? What I from Earth to break through instruments. Instead, we travel I never doubted that you'd manage it. Still, if you were on your home planet only yesterday, that's how did you manage to get here so from Earth to come here to see around Earth? And why did you drop a planet-buster in the Pacific told you that Earthlings were unbelievably planet, I went back far enough, using Earth as the spatial referent, to both of us. But you did come, so I can tell you that although I am the leader of one of the mightiest peoples in the Galaxy, whereas there are scarcely six spiral nebula that is our Galaxy. billions of you squatting on one other. Together, there is nothing we can't do." "I'm listening," said Crownwall. "We offer you partnership with us to take over the rule of the Galaxy from the Sunda—the so-called Master Race." "It would hardly be an equal partnership, would it, considering to move in time, the whole Galaxy than there are of us?" His Effulgence twitched his ear stalks in amusement. "I'm Viceroy of one of the hundred Sectors of the Empire. I rule over a total of a hundred Satrapies these average plane of this planet I'm on about a hundred Clusters apiece, and every Cluster has an average of a hundred inhabited solar systems. There are more inhabited planets in the Galaxy than there own race. And yet I tell you that it would be an equal partnership." "I don't get it. Why?" rose to his feet. "And now, Your Effulgence, I think it's about upstart Earthlings are a strange drove it home to Earth to make my time I went back to my ship and Earth out of hand, while "Your silly little planet was carefully thousand years ago. There were numbering a total of perhaps a hundred thousand individuals. cohort of troops, pikes at the ready and bows strapped to their backs, leaped forward and formed a Galaxy. In all, it has been found only fifteen times. The other races we have watched develop, and develop. It took the quickest of them just under a million years. "You Earthlings, in defiance of exploded into space. You have developed first expedition of your people into space, of course?" " adventure an adventure that had taken place little more than ten years before. The Star Seeker in space, about forty thousand kilometers above the Earth. It had been manned by a dozen adventurous people, captained by Crownwall, and had headed out on its ion drive until it was safely clear of the warping influence of planetary in Earth's history, and, for the The men of Earth had decided that it should work in theory. They had built the drive—a small machine, planet. To do so, said their theory, would usually—seven point three four times out of 10—destroy the ship, and everything in space for thousands of miles around, in a ravening burst of raw energy. of Alpha Centauri. They had with such things as pikes and Earth to be its twin sister. They had headed for that planet confidently and unsuspectingly, using the ion drive. Two weeks later, while they were still several planetary diameters from their destination, they had been shocked to find more than two score alien ships of space a shudder of distaste. "Tell me, race—the Master Race—also enjoy the type of civilization you have just had demonstrated the Star Seeker Your Effulgence, does the Emperor's than their own. These ships planet it had been heading toward. had rapidly and competently englobed , and had had called it—and their unanimous decision. Although far within the dangerous influence of a planetary race and mine, of course." "I sincerely hope so," said they had returned to Earth as swiftly as they had departed. Earth had against her unknown enemy. transportation machine. The machine, for spatial mobility, was itself and the ships and those of my own race who manned them. equipped with the heavy and grossly could also have wrecked the planet We had tried to contact you, but emitted no mass or radiation. landing on Earth and taking us starting his enormous journey through time back to Earth. More over?" asked Crownwall. wild and warlike races running free and uncontrolled in the Galaxy. Once was enough for that." Government of Earth, making a full reach his ship from the palace of it took us a little time to react. We located your planet quickly enough, and confirmed that you were a new blown into atoms if we don't. But organized a not inconsiderable defense. Your drones blew up our unmanned ships as fast as we could send them down to your planet. And by the time we had organized properly for war against you, it was of time before they'll find some you. We could only destroy you." way around it, and then—poof—we'll all be dust." across the Galaxy to meet him, to Galactic tongue, and had managed to get what you call the 'planet-buster' down into the to the President and began to speak rapidly. "They're gone without trace— way for you to get off the planet. to Sunda and there's no sign of intelligent life anywhere! We're all alone now!" Crownwall. "Our enemies are all gone!" other, head out into space, and show up on our planet. So I've been waiting for you, and here you are." Earthling," said His Effulgence. bowed. "The crustaceans on Sunda—the lobsterlike creatures that rule the Galaxy—are primitive tribe, grubbing in the "The Emperor at Sunda is one that you have entered space, that "War in space is almost an impossibility," "We can destroy planets, of course, but with few exceptions, we cannot conquer them. I rule a total of seven races in my Sector. I rule them, but I don't let them intermingle. Each race settles on the planets that best suit it. Each of those planets is quite capable of defending large-scale assaults that would result in its capture and subjugation—just itself. economic blockade—trade provides a small but vital portion of the goods each planet uses. All that a

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What was Earth's first Spaceship?

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A Voyager
B Alpha Centauri
C Star Seeker
D Enterprise

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C