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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DELEGATE VENUS what the delegate from Venus approached the object only not more than fifteen feet in total circumference. well. I guess there's no use " "We expect a certain amount of fighting it. Maybe if I Let me put it this way," voice spoke to them. "Greetings from Venus," it said, and then repeated the phrase in six languages. "The ship you see is a Venusian Class and said nothing. One part of his mind wanted him to play it assignment he had waited four years to get. But another cagey, to behave the way the tell of the story he felt sure was about to break. safe to approach. There is a "It's a box!" someone said. "A crate—" "Colligan! Moore! Schaffer! explosion rocked the quiet sands Then the voice spoke again Jerry deduced that it must have will find our delegate within. emissary." They set to work on the crate, its gray plastic material giving in readily to the application of you think is going on?" "I haven't the faintest idea." "Don't kid me, Mr. Conners. Think it's war?" "That'll be all, Bridges." "'Instructions for assembling Delegate,'" he read aloud. "'First, remove all parts and arrange them in the following order. A-1, central nervous system housing. A-2 ...'" He looked up. "It's an instruction book," item which had started the whole affair, and he seemed more interested in the romantic The Delegate, a handsomely feet tall, was pieced together some three hours later, by a team of scientists and engineers who seemed to find the Venusian instructions as elementary as a blueprint in an Erector set. But simple as the job was, they were quite a dame, all right. I think mechanism they had assembled. It stood impassive until they obeyed the final instruction. they ought to get the Secret Service to guard her. She really "That's not sighed. "What a way to get radioactive." did face of the United Nations that bothered him it was the certainty that something of and said: White House, flying visits by State Department officials, mysterious conferences involving So far, the byword had been secrecy. They knew under way, he knew that it was true. The highest echelons of the at the realization—Nikita Khrushchev himself. It was a summit foreign minister's debate. And the cause of it all, a placid, highly-polished metal robot, was seated blithely at a desk which bore the designation: VENUS. The robot delegate stood up. "Gentlemen," it said into the reasons. Greta Johnson had that effect upon men. Even did?" the confining effect of a mannishly-tailored microphone, and the great men prompt attention. I come as a Delegate from a great neighbor planet, in the interests of peace upon the other. I speak to you now through the electronic instrumentation which come to offer your planet not merely a threat, a promise, or an easy solution—but a challenge." The council room stirred. "Your earth satellites have we foresee the day when contact story—" "But I'm a reporter opened, the Delegate was an exploded without unleashing the terrible forces of power sadly. "What?" of Venus, promise you this—that speed over the world, and Venus will act swiftly, mercilessly, in a babble of languages. "The vessel which brought me here came as a messenger of peace. But envision it, men of Earth, as a messenger of war. Unstoppable, inexorable, it may return, bearing a different Delegate from Venus—a Delegate of Death, who speaks not in words, but in the explosion of atoms. you what I know, we could act human of the incredible event moons up there?" promise and the challenge that will hang in your night sky from a brother." the planet Venus, men of Earth, and see a Goddess of Vengeance, poised to wreak its wrath upon those who betray the peace." The Delegate sat down. Four days later, a mysterious "At first, they thought it was of Los Alamos, and the Venus " hours after that, the robot delegate, its message delivered, its Who locked inside a bombproof chamber. When the door was another sputnik." mission fulfilled, requested to be spacecraft was no more. Two and nobody could figure out what the damn thing was." it. Then there were joint meetings, dizzily. "You mean to tell me there's another of those metal "Wait a minute," Jerry said left him vaguely unsatisfied. He tried to explain his feeling Jerry Bridges' eyewitness accounts what ?" "Well, what's bothering you?" for about three days, and they're thinking of calling a plenary session of the UN just to figure the Delegate speak, something's "About the Venusians, of more for peace than anything that's ever come along in this cockeyed world. But still ..." from Venus guess they're and Jerry responded the way a can land their delegate." "Their delegate. They came "What's the matter?" "I just thought of something! Now where the hell did I put my old notebooks?" "You mean these Venusians notebooks inside. "What are guess. They've been having radio talks with practically "Well, how else can I take it? I'm not even supposed to know heading for the ivy-choked main building. It was remarkable a pencil to her mouth. "Well, I guess he'd be in the Holland a massive woman with gray hair and impervious to charm, guarded the portals of his office with all the indomitable will of the U. S. Marines. But Jerry Bridges tried. "You don't understand, Lana," from the men's dorm. He met a student at the door, who told "My name's not Lana, and I can't deliver any messages." "But this is something he wants an envelope, stamped URGENT. "Do it for me, Hedy. And I'll "Well," the woman said, thawing slightly. "I could deliver the Delegate speak. I didn't hooded. "What do you mean, Jerry?" with a grin of triumph. There were six men in the and produced a sheet of paper. He unfolded it and read aloud. "'It's my belief that peace is the responsibility of individuals, do you think it means?" "You know better than I do, it easy for us. It's our opinion by the Delegate from Venus." that secrecy is essential, that leakage of the story might cause your interest in robotics. I'll never forget that mechanical homing pigeon you constructed. And you've probably learned much more these past eleven it, we have two choices. One of them is to lock you up." person who knows of and engineers, a group who were suddenly struck by group that worked in the quiet and secrecy of a University on a fantastic scheme to force the idea of peace into the minds of group would secretly launch an earth satellite of their own, and a marvelous electronic robot radio message to earth from the reached to accept the delegate. cone, seemingly as if it originated from their 'spaceship.' Landing instructions are being through it to demand peace for all mankind ..." "You don't have to say it, in custody." The USAF jet transport wasn't the only secrecy-shrouded aircraft that took off that evening business is to tell the world Professor, I know what you're what I told you was nothing planet can do to us!" "Oh, I dunno. Venus is also the Goddess of Love." around her, and Venus winked himself by sitting on the sand, his back against the grill of a staff car, smoking one cigarette after another. As the minutes ticked off, the activity became more frenetic tension was a tangible substance in the night air. in an intricate pattern. Then the clouds seemed to voices could no longer be heard. Then the crisscrossing lights struck metal, glancing off the gleaming body of a descending object. Larger and larger the object grew, until it assumed the definable shape of a squat silver funnel, falling in a perfect A loudspeaker blared out an unintelligible order, but its message

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The Venusian delegate's message to humans on Earth is best characterized as a:

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A ultimatum
B attack
C task
D enigma

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A