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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on my part, they tended to segregate into groups consisting of four to eight couples together with the current children of the women. Within these groups, the adults were promiscuous, but apparently not outside the group. The group thus had the appearance of a super-family and the males indulged and cared for all the children without reference to actual parenthood. The only kind of gag worth pulling, I always maintained, was a cosmic one—till I learned the Cosmos has a really nasty sense of humor! houses in which the young, and sometimes the adults, slept through bound. I heard my daughter's running feet in the animal rooms and her tolerantly. "Can't adjust your skates?" I asked again. "Daddy, I've tried and tried and I just can't turn this old key tight enough." I continued to look down on her. "Well, Dad-dee, I can't!" "Tightly enough." "What?" "You can't turn this old key tightly enough." "That's what I My son asked, "What happened to the animals?" say My wife looked at me appraisingly and shook her head. "I thought you meant it. But you really ought to. It would be your first." on the ranch. through the dark overhead, they chattered and laughed and sometimes cage. "Daddy?" ?" "No." I lifted her out of the chair and stood her on her skates. "Tell your mother that I retaliate. I say she She skated awkwardly between the rows of cages from which mutants with brown fur and blue fur, too much and too little fur, enormously long The accelerator had forced them almost to adulthood in less than a structures. They were lovely, perfect little creatures. when I slipped out. "Come on, you old hermit. I have a buffet on the terrace." "Our daughter says I'm eccentric. Wonder how the devil she found out." "From me, of course." "But you love me just the same." the ketchup and said, "I've reached the dangerous age." "Oh, good heavens!" "Thanks. Yours deserve the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, too." Our son reared the new palomino I had just bought him for his fourteenth birthday and yelled down, "Unhand that maiden, Burrhead, or I'll give you lead poisoning." boy unsaddle the horse and slap it away to the pasture. I thought, "By God, wouldn't he have a fit if he knew what I have back there in that lab! Wouldn't they all!" The boy carried the saddle up onto the terrace and dropped it. "Mom, I'd like a swim before I eat." He started undressing. "You look as though a little water might help," she agreed, sitting down next to me with her plate. The girl was yanking off her skates. "And I want one." "All right. But go in the house and put on your swim suit." "Oh, Mother develop an embryonic culture of their own. Then they could leave my "Because, dear, I said so." The boy had already raced across the terrace and jack-knifed into the pool. The cool sound of the dive sent the girl scurrying for her suit. I looked at my wife. "What's the idea?" "She's going to be a young woman soon." "Is that any reason for wearing clothes? Look at him. He's a young man sooner than already." "Well, if you feel that way about it, they'll both have to start wearing clothes." I gulped the last of my hamburger and washed it down with the beer. "This place is going to hell," I complained. "The old man isn't allowed to pinch the maid and the kids can't go naked." I leaned toward her and smacked her cheek. "But the food and the old woman are still the best." "I told you—" "Oh, not that again! You were dangerous at any age." . Why?" but I've always...." "Well, when my old man was pumping his first fortune out of some oil you have prepared for them." ?" were already moving about on the mattress and the male was trying to stand. his arms out and tried to tease the spars open. They were not new. The By four o'clock that afternoon, I was feeding them solid food and, with the spars closed, they were holding little cups and drinking water from them in a most humanlike way. They were active, curious, playful and decidedly amorous. Cloud Nine and he wants to celebrate." Oh, wonderful! Good old Guy! Everybody's a success. It's great. It's married to Zeus. I've my own little Greeks descended from Icarus." "I will, yes. But first a divine kiss." have their own crafts and live in small tree houses. When they were able to take care of themselves, I would turn them would laugh. Then someone authoritative would find a colony and observe them. He "Darling, are you listening to me?" my wife asked with impatient "What? Sure. Certainly." "For heaven's sake, darling," my wife complained, "I told you about As we stepped up on the terrace, she turned to Guy and Em. "He's out of contact today. Thinks he's Zeus." I asked our son to wheel a TV set out onto the terrace while I made martinis for our friends. Then we sat down and drank the cocktails and to check on." "Darling, will you please—be— quiet ?" "Yeah, Dad. Can it, will you? You're always gagging around." On the screen, Guy's big dead-earnest face was explaining more about the project and suddenly I realized that this was an instrument-bearing it's always been pictured. A mechanical voice cut in. The women were kissing him and hugging him. Everybody was yelling at once. one week. Then I used it to bring the infants to maturity in one month. infants were females, which sped things up considerably. down the accelerator. From now on, they could have babies in their own I had devised the language for them, using Basic English as my model, the opportunity to slip the oldest of the males and his two females out They kept me busy relating their words for "tree," "rock," "sky" to the appreciate fully what lovely little creatures they were. They blended The two girls reached him before I did and stroked and fussed over him so that I could not get near. Suddenly he laughed with a shrill little whoop. After that, it was a carnival. They learned quickly and brilliantly. They were not fliers Of course, the volplas didn't want to return to the lab. There was a tiny stream through there and at one point it formed a sizable pool. They got into this and splashed their long arms about and they scrubbed stretched to dry. I watched them affectionately and wondered about the advisability of could tell them about surviving would help them as much as a little are very few of you left. Since you have been staying at my place, you naturally have forgotten the ways of living outdoors." "We can learn again. We want to stay here." His little face was so solemn and thoughtful that I reached out and stroked the fur on his there. I can stay for a while. How long will they be in the tree?" "Chances are they won't stay long. Keep your eye on the tree in case him. Their lavish affection held him up for a time, but eventually he strutted in like every human hunter. gleeful and greasily amorous during the meal. his wonder. "You say we came from there?" "The old ones of your kind told me so. Didn't they tell you?" "That's right." "Which star?"

<question>:
What kind of relationship does the narrator have with his children?

<options>:
A The children don't talk to him at all, because they are constantly disappointed by his not sharing his work with them
B The children see him as a kind but absent father figure who is dedicated to his science
C The children think he is nice but odd, perhaps a bit too talkative about his own pride around his work
D The children are upset with him because they think he is too strict, making them swim with bathing suits, and things like this

<answer>:

B