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 Despite his sudden irrational anger toward her, Maitland tried to stick There was a thump. Maitland stirred, came half awake, and opened his the open window fell on the foot of his bed. Outside, the residential "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 from within the room. It had sounded like someone stumbling into a chair, or— Something moved in the darkness on the other side of the room. Maitland "Birth control," Maitland scoffed. "How do you make it work—secret This wasn't his room! beneath its leafy roof of huge ancient trees. Shock contracted Maitland's diaphragm and spread through his body. He pivoted to inspect the room. Even before his eyes could take in the details, he had the impression that there was something wrong about it. To begin with, the style was unfamiliar. There were no 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 is the word?—gadgets. Our machines serve us, and so long as they straight lines or sharp corners anywhere. The walls were paneled in featureless blue plastic and the doors were smooth surfaces of metal, half ellipses, without knobs. The flowing lines of the chair and table, built apparently from an aluminum alloy, somehow gave the impression of arrested motion. Even after allowances were made for the outlandish design, something about the room still was not right. function right, we are satisfied to forget about them. the door slid aside and disappeared. Maitland glanced in at Maitland stared at her, his face blank. His mind had just manufactured "Because this is the Age of the disclosed bathroom, then went over to look at the other door. His eyes returned to the doors, and he moved over to study the nearer realized what it was that had made the room seem so queer. It did not look like a jail cell. There were no bars.... in vain that the atomic bomb offered a means of finally destroying the Maitland looked up at the girl, who was regarding him silently with reached forward cautious fingers and discovered a hard sheet of stuff so transparent that he had not even suspected its presence. Not glass! Glass was never this clear or strong. A plastic, no doubt, but one he banged his forehead. He staggered back, grimacing with pain, then hadn't heard of. Security sometimes had disadvantages. empty stomach—what was in store for him here? Maitland speculated on the possibility that this might be Sweden Scandinavian.... As they came closer, he saw that both of them had dark uniform suntans and showed striking muscular development, like persons who had trained About half an hour later, the door he couldn't open slid aside into the sandals, stood across the threshold looking in at him. Maitland stood The fellow looked about forty-five. The first details Maitland noticed This man was intelligent, Maitland decided, and extremely sure of three meals a day, served in this room. You will not be allowed to we want your childish secrets about rocket motors." Maitland's heart "Are you crazy?" Maitland asked quietly. "Do you realize that at this After that outlandish cell, Swarts' laboratory looked rather commonplace. There was something like a surgical cot in the center, and a bench along one wall supported several electronics cabinets. A couple of them had cathode ray tube screens, and they all presented a normal complement of meters, pilot lights, and switches. Cables from them ran across the ceiling and came to a focus above the high flat cot in the center of the room. "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. He moved so fast that Maitland couldn't block the blow. It was to the from the ceiling. A sphygmomanometer sleeve was wrapped tightly around his left upper arm, its rubber tube trailing to a small black box "You seem to know everything about me," Maitland said defiantly, equipment, calibrating it to your reactions." He went on, "Your favorite recreations are chess and reading what you term science fiction. Maitland, Something eager leaped in Maitland's breast at the abrupt question, and didn't I? Maitland, I brought you here because you're a man who wants glowed like gold in the evening light, yet thick coiled braids of blonde hair that glittered like polished brass. Shorts and a sleeveless blouse of some thick, reddish, metallic-looking fabric clung to her body, and over that she was wearing a light, ankle-length cloak of what seemed to be white wool. expectancy. Maitland sighed and said, "Hello," then glanced down billowing behind her. Maitland remained standing, staring at the closed contrary. Maitland frowned. This place certainly didn't have the appearance of a military establishment, and so far there had been nothing to suggest the kind of interrogation to be expected from Maitland felt his worry drain away, leaving an almost mystical sense of peace and an undefinable longing. Maitland kept track of them all in their majestic paths through the "I'm adaptable," he told himself gleefully. "I can learn fast. There'll After a while Maitland smiled to himself and went back to bed. that she had discarded the white cloak. There was no button beside this one, nor any other visible means of life and death of cultures than by the expansion or contraction of the Universe. With us, it is the people that are important, not gadgets." Wordlessly, Maitland climbed to his feet, preceded Swarts to the Baffled, he turned again and looked at the large open window—and test—Maitland began the job of integrating "csc "What year is this?" Maitland asked in a conversational tone. of a binocular microscope over Maitland's head, so that the lenses at eyes. He attached tiny clamps to Maitland's eyelashes. He inserted button earphones into Maitland's ears— He was looking at a door in a partly darkened room, and there were powder—then blackness. With a deliberate effort, Maitland unclenched his fists and tried to Maitland gritted his teeth and fought to use his brain all the intelligent social responsibility of a rogue gorilla, but no new world. There was blood hammering in Maitland's temples. His face felt hot and Maitland's smile became a grin. globe against the constellations.... Finally the door slid aside and she appeared, carrying the usual tray Maitland urged her into the chair and sat down on the edge of the bed. She shrugged. "Swarts says that I want to go back to the Dark Age of "How do you mean—" Maitland wrinkled his brow—"adapt to modern 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 Maitland wrinkled his brow. "Afrikander?" last remnant of the American World Empire—and southern Africa. The "They were clever with machines, the Afrikanders. They made armies of them. Armies of invincible killing-machines, produced in robot factories from robot-mined ores.... Very clever." She gave a little shudder. "Robot factories and farms," Maitland mused. "What else? What means of After several seconds, Maitland swallowed. Something seemed to be the He was gripping the edge of the bed now, glaring at her. "A civilization that could discover time travel and build robot factories ship ? Oh, you mean something like a

<question>:
What did Maitland's new room not possess?

<options>:
A curves
B a glass window
C a push-button door
D metal furniture

<answer>:

B