input: Text: THE DOPE on Mars By JACK SHARKEY Somebody had to get the human angle on this trip... but what was humane about sending me? Illustrated by WOOD My agent was the one who got me the job of going along to write up the first trip to Mars. He was always getting me things like that—appearances on TV shows, or mentions in writers' magazines. If he didn't sell much of my stuff, at least he sold me. "It'll be the biggest break a writer ever got," he told me, two days before blastoff. "Oh, sure there'll be scientific reports on the trip, but the public doesn't want them; they want the human slant on things." "But, Louie," I said weakly, "I'll probably be locked up for the whole trip. If there are fights or accidents, they won't tell me about them." "Nonsense," said Louie, sipping carefully at a paper cup of scalding coffee. "It'll be just like the public going along vicariously. They'll identify with you." "But, Louie," I said, wiping the dampness from my palms on the knees of my trousers as I sat there, "how'll I go about it? A story? An article? A you-are-there type of report? What?" Louie shrugged. "So keep a diary. It'll be more intimate, like." "But what if nothing happens?" I insisted hopelessly. Louie smiled. "So you fake it." I got up from the
  Question: What's ironic about the narrator's and Kroger's decision to sign on for the flight scheduled to Venus?
  
   (A) The narrator is going to fabricate more events to make his story sound appealing to the general public
   (B) They have the least amount of technical experience compared to the other members of the Martian crew
   (C) They were permitted to attend due to their 'experience,' but their experience created a major crisis on Earth
   (D) The narrator's deadpan tone is not likely to convey the true excitement of the Venusian journey
  Answer:
output: They were permitted to attend due to their 'experience,' but their experience created a major crisis on Earth