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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Maitland felt his face become hot. "Men can go anywhere, if they want To the men of the future, the scientific goals of today were as incomprehensible as the ancient quest for the Holy Grail! There was a thump. Maitland stirred, came half awake, and opened his Despite his sudden irrational anger toward her, Maitland tried to stick "We have no population problem. A hundred years ago, we realized that the key to social stability is a limited population. Our economic system was built to take care of three hundred million people, and we I have been saying applies to most of the world. In some places like Aresund, things are different. Backward. I still do not feel that I belong here, although the people of the town have accepted me as one of This wasn't his room! the shops should have been, there was deep prairie grass, then a green ocean pushed into waves by the breeze stretching to the horizon. This The lawn outside wasn't part of the Reservation! Where the labs and Shock contracted Maitland's diaphragm and spread through his body. information that other military powers would very much like to obtain. It was absolutely incredible that anyone had managed to abduct him from the heavily guarded confines of the Reservation, yet someone had done it. How? traveling is the greatest adventure there is. At least, that is the way I feel. Listen, Bob." She laid a hand on his arm. "You grew up in the Age of Technology. Everybody was terribly excited about what could be done with machines—machines to blow up a city all at once, or fly around the world, or take a man to Mars. We have had our fill of—what the details, he had the impression that there was something wrong about it. To begin with, the style was unfamiliar. There were no "Because this is the Age of Man . We are terribly interested in what can be done with people. Our scientists, like Swarts, are studying human rather than nuclear reactions. We are much more fascinated by the life and death of cultures than by the expansion or contraction of the the door slid aside and disappeared. Maitland glanced in at Maitland stared at her, his face blank. His mind had just manufactured Universe. With us, it is the people that are important, not gadgets." a discouraging analogy. His present position was like that of an earnest 12th Century crusader, deposited by some freak of nature into Maitland looked up at the girl, who was regarding him silently with hadn't heard of. Security sometimes had disadvantages. He looked out at the peaceful vista of river and prairie. The character of the sunlight seemed to indicate that it was afternoon. He became aware that he was hungry. Where the devil could this place be? And—muscles tightened about his empty stomach—what was in store for him here? This man was intelligent, Maitland decided, and extremely sure of himself. "What's the idea?" Maitland asked. "What is all this?" Maitland stood there for a moment, deliberately relaxing his tensed Maitland shook his head stubbornly. question you about your work just forget about it. Your home town is Madison, Wisconsin...." "You seem to know everything about me," Maitland said defiantly, Something eager leaped in Maitland's breast at the abrupt question, and expectancy. Maitland sighed and said, "Hello," then glanced down It might be better to tackle the first question first. He looked at the Sun, a red spheroid already half below the horizon, and tried to think of a region that had this kind of terrain. That prairie out there was unique. Almost anywhere in the world, land like that would be cultivated, not allowed to go to grass. This might be somewhere in Africa.... He shook his head, puzzled. The Sun disappeared and its blood-hued Maitland felt his worry drain away, leaving an almost mystical sense of He realized the truth in that moment. Later, when that jewel of a planet had set and the stars were out, ! Here was the opportunity for the greatest adventure imaginable to 20th Century man. Somewhere, out there under the stars, there must be grand glittering cities and busy spaceports, roaring gateways to the planets. he had a chance to become a part of all that! He could spend his life among the planets, a citizen of deep space, a voyager of the challenging spaceways between the solar worlds. "I'm adaptable," he told himself gleefully. "I can learn fast. There'll be a job for me out there...." After a while Maitland smiled to himself and went back to bed. Swarts came half an hour later, and Maitland began his planned Wordlessly, Maitland climbed to his feet, preceded Swarts to the Maitland gritted his teeth and fought to use his brain all the intelligent social responsibility of a rogue gorilla, but no more. He brooded over the damnable stupidity and short-sightedness of Swarts in standing by his silly rules and not telling him about this new world. Within a minute, he was in an ungovernable rage. His muscles tightened against the restraining straps. He panted, sweat came out on his forehead, and he began to curse. Swarts! How he hated.... The scene was suddenly a flock of sheep spread over a green hillside. There was blood hammering in Maitland's temples. His face felt hot and Maitland's smile became a grin. aboard a ship dropping in toward Mars, making planetfall at Syrtis Major he was seeing visions of Venus and the awesome beauty of Saturn. In his mind, he circled the Moon, and viewed the Earth as a huge bright globe against the constellations.... Believe me, I've been there, and what I've seen of this world looks a lot better." She shrugged. "Swarts says that I want to go back to the Dark Age of Technology because I have not adapted well to modern culture. Myself, I think I have just a romantic nature. Far times and places look more exciting...." "Oh, no! But my home is Aresund, a little fishing village at the head of a fiord in what you would call Norway. So far north, we are much behind the times. We live in the old way, from the sea, speak the old Oriental and European characteristics, and hesitantly asked, "Maybe I shouldn't.... This is a little personal, but ... you don't look altogether like the Norwegians of my time." His fear that she would be offended proved to be completely unjustified. She merely laughed and said, "There has been much history since 1950. Five hundred years ago, Europe was overrun by Pan-Orientals. Today you could not find anywhere a 'pure' European Maitland wrinkled his brow. "Afrikander?" have been awe, or even hatred he could not tell. "The Pan-Orientals eventually conquered all the world, except for North America—the last remnant of the American World Empire—and southern Africa. The Afrikanders had been partly isolated for several centuries then, and they had developed technology while the rest of the world lost it. They had a tradition of white supremacy, and in addition they were terrified of being encircled." She sighed. "They ruled the next world empire and it was founded on the slaughter of one and a half billion human beings. shudder. "And yet they founded modern civilization," she added. "The grandsons After several seconds, Maitland swallowed. Something seemed to be the arms as if to shield her face if he should hit her. "Let's get this perfectly clear," he said, more harshly than he realized. "So far as you know, no one has ever visited the planets, and no one wants to. Is that right?" and fingers delicately stroking his brow. Presently he opened his eyes and looked at her. "I just don't understand," he said. "It seemed obvious to me that whenever men were able to reach the planets, they'd

<question>:
What does Maitland think when he is finally told where he is?

<options>:
A He is angry to find out that time travel is not yet possible
B He is thrilled because he did not know space travel was possible
C He suspected it all along
D He is surprised that the world is so developed in the surrounding area

<answer>:

C