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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ACCIDENTAL DEATH BY PETER BAILY The most by a series of silly errors happening one after another in defiance of probability? The one depressing and one cheering. A "I'll sign off with two thoughts, planetful of them do? "On the other hand, a talent that manipulates chance events is bound to be chancy. No matter how highly tale." mountain. Peering through his polarized shadow down the long furrow, and flashed at the furrow's end on a thing of metal and plastics, an artifact thrown down in the dead wilderness. Nothing grew, nothing flew, nothing walked, nothing talked. But the Transcriber's Note: stiff jerks like a snake with its back broken or a clockwork toy running down. When the movements stopped, there was a click and a strange sound began. Thin, scratchy, inaudible thing in the hollow was stirring in more than a yard away, weary shape in the hollow the sound of a human voice. "I've tried my hands and arms and they seem to work," it began. "I've wiggled my toes with entire success. It's well on the cards that I'm all in one piece and not broken up at all, though I don't see how it could happen. Right now I don't feel like struggling up and finding out. I'm fine where I am. I'll just lie here for a while and relax, and get got a built-in recorder, I might as well use it. That way even if I'm not and wonder what went wrong. "I suppose I'm in a state of shock. That's why I can't seem to get up. Sure I'm a good astronomer but so are lots of other guys. If I were ten years older, it would have been an honor, being picked for the first long never anything wrong with the Whale won't. I could weep when I think of those miles of lovely color film, all gone up in smoke. at fifteen p.s.i. The odds against finding Chang on a six-sun "The Chang natives aren't very their way, they're a highly civilized . "Three, they've a great sense of humor. Ran rather to silly practical jokes, but still. Can't say I care for that hot-foot and belly-laugh stuff myself, but tastes differ. "Four, the ten-man language team also learned chess and table tennis. "But why go on? People who talk English, drink beer, like jokes and beat me at chess or table-tennis are people for my money, even if they look like tigers in trousers. "It was funny the way they won all the time at table tennis. They certainly weren't so hot at it. Maybe that ten per cent extra gravity put us off our strokes. As for chess, Svendlov was our champion. He won sometimes. The rest of us seemed to lose whichever Chingsi we played. There again it wasn't so much that in the time? It was more that we all seemed to make silly mistakes when we played them and that's fatal in chess. Of course it's a screwy situation, playing chess with something that grows its own fur coat, has yellow eyes an inch and a half long you have kept your mind on the game? "And don't think I fell victim to their feline charm. The children were pets, but you didn't feel like patting the adults on their big grinning heads. Personally I didn't like the one I knew best. He was called—well, we or whatever you like to call him, who came back with us. Why I disliked him was because he was always trying to get the edge on you. All the Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. of humor, of course. I nearly broke my neck on that butter-slide he fixed up in the metal alleyway to the time he had to be top. Great sense copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and even laughed myself though doing it hurt me more than the tumble had. Yes, life and soul of the party, old Charley ... "My last sight of the Minnow "My God, it's dark out here. Wonder how high I am. Must be all of fifty miles, and doing eight hundred miles an hour at least. I'll be doing "That's better. Why didn't I close I expected though. Almost seem to be and the suit recorder has no playback or eraser. What must have happened is that the suit ran out of oxygen, and I lost consciousness due to anoxia. I dreamed I switched on the radio, but I actually switched on and that brought me round. "Come to think of it, why not "No. I'd have to get up to do that. I think I'll just lie here a little bit longer and get properly rested up before I try anything big like standing and Mars. Instead of which, when James took his finger off the button, except the noise-level of the universe. our exact position relative to the in front of meters and mutter about co-ordinate system we used based on Nothing was wrong with the computer. Nothing was wrong with the engines. We'd hit the right button the wrong place. It hurts me to tell practical terms, one highly trained crew member had punched a wrong pattern of holes on the tape. Another equally skilled had failed to notice this when reading back. A childish error, highly improbable twice repeated, thus squaring the improbability. Incredible, but that's what why we were out there so long. They were cross-checked about five times. I got sick so I climbed into a spacesuit and went outside and took some density in the outer regions. When again after four months subjective time away, except for Charley, who was still chuckling and shaking his head, and Captain James who was wishing human dignity permitted him to tear Charley limb from limb. Then "Everything twanged like a bowstring. was the For, as of course you know, the star-drive couldn't be used again for "The As again you know, this is good for run it continuously and it has extremely high exhaust velocity. But in our situation it was no good because down, but I doubt they'll salvage much you can use. "I wonder why James went down with the ship, as the saying is? Not that it made any difference. It must have broken his heart to know that his lovely ship was getting the chopper. Or did he suspect another human crisp. Only thing that saved me was how he'd escaped—and I earth fifty miles below. I shut my eyes and that's about all I remember. I don't see how any of us could have survived. I think we're all dead. "I'll have to get up and crack this I'm dead so I can't stand up." There was silence for a while except for the vicious howl of the wind. slowly around for some time. After about two hours he returned to the hollow, squatted down and switched on the recorder. The voice began "Hello there. I'm in the bleakest precipice around me every way but to go till I find a way to go down. I've been chewing snow to quench word. Not English, not French, and there I stick. Listened to it for fifteen about the Chingsi, and here it is: (1) The Chingsi talk and laugh but talents develop? A talent that's so uncertain and rudimentary here that most people don't believe but one of us lost our lives. We couldn't even win a game of ping-pong. "So what is luck, good or bad? Scientifically speaking, future chance can turn out favorable or not. When a preponderance of chance events has way. But the gambler defines it differently. For him, luck refers to the future, and you've got bad luck when future chance events won't go your way. Scientific investigations into this have been inconclusive, but everyone others aren't. All we've got are hints and glimmers, the fumbling touch of a rudimentary talent. There's the evil eye legend and the Jonah, bad luck bringers. Superstition? Maybe

<question>:
What is the narrator's perception of ping-pong?

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A It is a sport he is dedicated to
B He is embarrassed to be beat at it by members of other races
C He always watches it on television but never cared to play
D It was a favorite hobby as a child but he does not play anymore

<answer>:

B