There are immense gains to be made from the exchange of information with civilizations in other star systems. Another civilization is almost certain to have developed technologies that we have not, and vice versa. Exchange of scientific information would also be worthwhile, and surely each culture would be enriched by acquaintance with the other's artistic masterpieces. The passage suggests which of the following about a civilization in another star system?

It is not likely to be as technologically advanced as our civilization is.

It is not likely to benefit from exposure to our artistic heritage.

It is likely to be hostile toward any offer to exchange information.

It is likely to profit from our scientific knowledge.

the answer is academic paper

and the second should be college professor

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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