[求助]这两道题！（不知道哪一年的）

1.Exploration of the Solar System is continuing,and at the present rate of progress all planets will have been contacted within the near 50 years.

不明白这里的D选项应该怎么改，不是有 the near future 么？为什么这里又不行呢？不太明白near 在此的用法。

the next 50 years表达相对固定。

2.A regional writer with a gift for dialect,____her fiction with the eccentric,comic,but vital inhabitants of rural Mississippi.

(B)Eudora Welty peoples

不明白选项中的people的用法。

people动词用法，

if a story or someone's imagination is peopled by people of a particular type, it is full of them

be peopled by/with somebody

Her world was peopled with imaginary friends.

请讲解一下，谢谢！