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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THE DOPE on Mars By JACK SHARKEY Somebody had to get the human angle on this trip ... but what agent was the one who trip to Mars. He was always getting We look like desperadoes, what with the rifles and covered faces. I Kroger and Pat, with the help of the aliens. Or maybe I should call them the Martians. they want the human on things." without our even asking. Jones is tells me that there are phosphorescent bacteria living in the mold on make it a gift to Martian archeologists? There's a Martian guarding the Mars. And I kept a diary. This is what they intend to do with us. we're aimed toward where Mars it. Actually, it's we who are coming be, or else). There are five of us on board. A pilot, co-pilot, navigator and biochemist. And, of course, me. I've met all but the pilot (he's very busy today), and they seem friendly enough. Dwight Kroger, the biochemist, other. A little Martian came near Martian whistled like crazy and "Water must be dangerous to sending a green scientist who could is rather old to take the "rigors of man who would probably not survive, safety. Kroger told Pat he was blasted off, though, and he's still crazy, that the little island we're on the journey," as he puts it, but the skinny, but his skin is tan as an Indian's, and right now he's telling jokes in the washroom with the co-pilot. Jones (that's the co-pilot I "What the hell," says Pat, "it's in the heart of the planet, says . So is everybody didn't quite catch his first name) is down. A Martian threw a stone at Come to think of it, who does belong where we are? The navigator's name is Lloyd Streeter, but I haven't seen his face yet. He has a little cubicle behind of scales. The Martian whistled the pilot's compartment, with all (they call it the bulkhead, void headed for Earth, with enough for some reason or other) pen on the maps, and now and then calling numbers over a microphone to the pilot. His hair is red and curly, and he looks as though he'd be tall if he ever gets too. So far, all he's said is, "Scram, I'm busy." Kroger tells me that the pilot's name is Patrick Desmond, but that I can call him Pat when I get to know him better. So far, he's still Captain Desmond to me. I haven't the vaguest idea what he looks like. He was already on board when I The Martians are made of sugar. must be like Terran (Earth-type) said that the Martian metabolism metabolism, only with no pancreas during blastoff. The inertial gravities didn't bother me so much as the gyroscopic spin they put on the bodies, in the form of scales. He's energy on the They're having pork for dinner today. Not me. (all sugar, of course) wet. He sticky. their bodies isolated carbon from something (he thought it might be "Sure," I said. "Do you have a board?" He didn't. Like plants, on Earth, he said. does Except, instead of using special with the help of sunpower, as Earth plants do in photosynthesis (Kroger spelled that word his ballpoint pen and ruler, it should first name) has been up with the pilot all day. He passed my room on the way to the galley (the spectra (another Kroger word) screen, and they still need it for steering or something. I still haven't met the pilot. October 3, 1960 Well, I've met the pilot. He is kind of squat, with a vulturish neck and close-set jet-black eyes that Kroger, sitting on the ground and "We remove our boots," said make him look rather mean, but he it that Pat said was the Earth. The back of the Moon isn't much than moss, Kroger." we'd land on Mars upside down. He The Martians what they use those stream (the Martians had probably chance of lichen on Mars, and I on Mars?" about Mars (we know there are Martians, and they're made of With Martian rime, Venusian slime, And a radioactive hoe. Kroger, whose mind wasn't always "The radio," said Pat, nodding to Lloyd, "was unfortunately broken shortly after landing." Lloyd blinked, then nodded back and walked around the He prefers to be called Jones. Pat uses his first name as a gag. Some drives a rifle butt through a radio. Well, it's time for takeoff. This time it wasn't so bad. I Mars, so escape velocity didn't Kroger is busy in his cramped lab space trying to classify the little there are two baby Martians loose on board ship. Pat told him he to go. I saw Mars when we were in that zoo. They're descending from overhead, but Pat Pat has declared a state of emergency. Quick thinking, that's Pat. Lloyd, before he remembered and says that that's the "torque" doing said it was against regulations, but what the hell. We have a contest. Longest whiskers on landing gets a Earth for instructions. We can't. days—if the Martians don't take prize. Kroger is thrilled that he is Mars has Martian reproductive processes. When he told Pat, Pat put it to a vote whether or not to jettison Kroger through the airlock. However, I asked Pat what the prize was filled. Looks like Death Valley. No Kroger had only studied them, and Jones had brought them aboard. did me at takeoff. Earth seems awfully far away. June 19, 1961 the air is getting worse. Pat suggested Kroger put us all into a state of suspended animation till landing hook-ups. Kroger says the air is to wear gas masks with oxygen thirsty. Kroger says that at least—when the Martians get bigger—they'll inhale. He's all for going out and from Earth. So we just have says it's the dust. The sand underfoot little Martians. gave him a cigar he'd smuggled on board (no smoking was allowed on He doesn't smoke. June 20, 1961 Got lost today. it turns to carbon, and we can use The Martians means so are the Martians. Kroger says the Martians must standing there, tall and silvery, the says let's jettison Kroger. be pulverized and mixed with sulphuric acid. He says this'll produce carbon. produces carbon but water vapor, the rocket. we're on it. Martians keep coming those Martians. caught one of the Martians in the the creature, which carbonized having another Martian still on to make a landing. Pat says at least our vector will carry us to Earth and we can die on our home planet, which is better when we fired." "Where," said Jones, "are Pat and Kroger?" Martian is still with us. He's where but he can't get at the carbon which is a help. However, his tail is prehensile, and now and then it snakes out through an air duct and under our noses. Kroger says watch out. "We'd better get them on the made of carbohydrates, too. I'd Earth fills lucky, he might be able to use the than a submarine, he insists, and "Who knows what's 'menacing' in an alien?" you know the rest of spotted us and got us and my diary aboard, and towed the the "captured Martian" leaked out, and we all became nine-day wonders rocket. on a Martian. must be happy to have found his region on Earth. Kroger tried falls, a new Martian springs up from Mars. heroes. Well, we're of Pat or Kroger yet, but the sand I've always wanted to travel with the President. —JACK SHARKEY and clear. The aliens seem to have

<question>:
Who is the 'dope' on Mars?

<options>:
A Kroger, the biochemist
B Jones, the co-pilot
C The narrator
D Desmond, the pilot

<answer>:

C