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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Every writer must seek his own Flowery Kingdom in imagination's wide demesne, and if that search can begin and end on Earth his problem has been greatly simplified. In post-war Japan Walt Sheldon has found not only serenity, but complete freedom to write undisturbed about the things he treasures most. A one-time Air Force officer, he has turned to fantasy in It is not difficult to understand why. The working model and the fact that the small people with their At the end of sixteen days I had the entire problem all but whipped. and grinned all the while. his lighter moments, to bring us such brightly sparkling little gems as this. of the old things every day, and truly that went far to take the clutter out of my mind. I was no longer so lonely that I couldn't think properly. equation noises. It was in a park near the and the soft breeze stirring them up nuclear propulsion center—a cool, a secluded little green sanctuary just over the hill from Mr. Riordan's at any given moment, under any work out an equation to give the coefficient of discharge for the matter workable equation when we set bargain." "I'll not be needing the gold," I from any orifice has a velocity directly "What's this now?" root of the pressure-head driving it. "I don't feel it would be But when you actually put things sort." together, contractions or expansions "I'll not be needing it," I repeated. of nuclear explosion—which is what the drive amounts to despite the fact that it is simply water in which nuclear salts have been previously from a mortal." He turned to his long as he shall live!" much of this that if you're not a nuclear engineer yourself it's certain to weary you. with the leaves making only word for it that without this equation—correctly along. It smelled exactly like a stated, mind you—mankind would be well advised not slowly and chuckled to myself at how I had gotten the best of the say, upon the tongue of a man named Kevin Francis Houlihan. But I am, after all, a scientist. If I had not been a specialist in my field I would hardly have found myself engaged in vital research at the center. had given them the wrong equation, of course. They would never get their spaceship to work now, and in eerily mysterious fashion with a determined the true coefficient of absent-minded. I tiptoed to the edge of the trees, not wanting to deprive any small scalawags of their pleasure, his working model. It would go down in scientific literature now, I suppose, as Houlihan's group of little people, hard at work. though it would have been pleasant to be truly rich for a change. There was no sense in cheating leprechauns are most clever in matters of this sort and he would have had it back soon enough—or else made it a burden in some way. Indeed, I had done a piece of work greatly to my advantage, and also to the advantage of humankind, and when a man can do the first and include the second as a fortunate byproduct never seen them so busy, either. They were building something in the middle of the glade. It was long this crotchety one, looking straight work! You'll not be needin' to mind that man standin' there! You know he can't see nor hear us!" Transcriber's Note: and became stiff and alert for a moment, he shrugged and turned away, clearly staring open-mouthed. Then he said, "What? What's that, now?" catch one and keep him. Or so the often about the truth of them. tongue. I was lonely here in America, even if I had latched on to a fine job of work for almost shamefully generous pay. You see, in a place as full of science as the nuclear propulsion center there is not much almost miraculously complete and workable. father used to say! Come on out now, and pass the time o' day!" Then I waited, but they didn't I'd come to the glen to work out a knotty problem, and I was up against a blank wall. Simply because I was so lonely that my mind had become clogged. to think the problem through to a satisfactory conclusion. "Do you understand? I'll give The leader—he seemed more wizened and bent than before—approached me slowly and warily as I at a safe distance. I smiled to reassure in a friendly gesture of greeting. "Good morning," the foreman drawing a kind of peppered dignity up about himself, "in such matters I am never fully convinced. After living for many centuries I am all too acutely aware of the perversity of human nature." "Yes," I said. "Well, as you will quickly see, all I want to do is talk." I nodded as I spoke, and sat down cross-legged upon the grass. "And often that's he wants," He shook his head and remained standing. "Have your say, Mr. it if you'll go away and leave us to our work." "Well, now, your work," I said, and glanced at the spaceship. "That's exactly what's got me curious." expression, and said, "I've been so often, though not as frequently as it did a century ago. But knowing does me." "It just so happens I'm a doctor of science." "A doctor of science, now," said Keech. "Invited by the American government "A scientist, is it," said Keech. "Well, now, that's very interesting." "I'll make no apologies for it," I "Oh, there's no need for apology," said Keech. "Though in truth we prefer poets to scientists. But it has just now crossed my mind, Mr. Houlihan that you, being a scientist, might be of help to us." usually does." "I am surprised from time to time to find myself here," I said. "But continue." "We had to come here," said Keech, "to learn how to make a spaceship." "Leprechauns are not really mechanically inclined," said Keech. "Their major passions are music and laughter and mischief, as anyone knows." "Well, if I may use an old expression, that we're not long for this world. Or let me put it this way. We feel the world isn't long for itself." I scratched my cheek. "How would a man unravel a statement "It's very simple. With all the "Well, then, as I say," said equations sits strangely, you might learned how to do it. Well—almost how to do it. We haven't learned I was inclined to suggest the but I was hooted down. Be that as it may, my own job was to go into There's one thing which puzzles me, though. If you've been constantly "You're determined to go." has crossed my mind. That's why I'm wastin' all this time with you, sir. You say you are a scientist." to know at any instant exactly how much thrust is bein' delivered And on paper it looks simple you get to doin' it it doesn't come out exactly as it does on paper." "You're referring to the necessity for a coefficient of discharge." "Whatever it might be named," said Keech, shrugging. "'Tis the finally, "why should I help you?" not with humor, "the avarice of That's a grandmother's tale. a proposition." us how to make our ship work." "Well, now, that's quite an "You accept the proposition was out we had half the spaceship apart, and were deep in argument about the whole project. It was a most fascinating session. I had often wished for a true working model at the center, but no allowance had been inserted in the as you would a needle, I was able to make many sensible observations and even a few innovations. I came back again the next day—and or the center itself would pass by, and stop to watch me. But of course or anything the leprechauns had made, not being believers. I would halt work, pass the time of day, and then, in subtle fashion,

<question>:
Which best describes the narrator's attitude towards his work?

<options>:
A He is frustrated that nobody ever recognizes his progress
B He wishes he were in a different country interacting with his own people
C He is proud to be contributing to broad scientific questions
D He is disappointed he has to work inside a lab but enjoys research

<answer>:

C