Reread the underlined sentence on page 4.
What does the figurative language in this
sentence suggest about the narrator?
He blames people's exaggerated idea of their
superiority for their failure to imagine life more
advanced than themselves.
He feels that people should have used better tools
to help them detect advanced life forms on other
planets.
He is unable to believe that there could be any
form of life more advanced than humans.
He sympathizes with people for not apprehending
that there was advanced life on other planets.