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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JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT BY WILLIAM LEE ILLUSTRATED BY SCHOENHERR "What would you think," I asked Marjorie over supper, "if I should undertake to lead a junior achievement group this summer?" She pondered it while she went to the kitchen to bring in the dessert. what seemed to me, since I use two "Why, Donald," she said, "it could be quite interesting, if I understand what a junior achievement group is. What gave you the idea?" "It wasn't my idea, really," I admitted. in chemistry. Perhaps if I saw the to the office today, and told me that some of the children in the lower grades wanted to start one. They need adult guidance of course, and one of the group suggested my name." I should explain, perhaps, that I teach a course in general science in our Ridgeville Junior High School, "Mr. McCormack called me Senior High School. It's a privilege and another in general physics in the envy, teaching in Ridgeville, for our new school is a fine one, and our academic standards are high. On the which I'm sure many educators must at least sometimes, to teach my old-fashioned brand of science to these children of a new age. "That's very nice," said Marjorie. "What does a junior achievement group do?" "It has the purpose," I told her, "of teaching the members something themselves. "Well, now," I demanded, in my best classroom voice. "What is all were laughing and evidently enjoying "Are you Henderson?" the larger "I am indeed," I said, and a flash bulb went off. A young lady grasped for we both recognize that my understanding quiet. "You didn't know that one of your junior whatsisnames poured detergent in the Memorial Fountain basin last night?" rather closely for the last ten—no, eleven years. Back in the old Ridgeville, across the street. And this morning," she chortled, "somebody phoned in an anonymous tip to the police—of course it was the same boy that did it—Tommy—Miller?—and so here we are. And we just saw a demonstration so, of course, did we, which meant morning about three weeks later, I was sitting at one end of a plank picnic table with five boys and girls lined up along the sides. This was to 20% solution." "Goodness." I protested, "it's been belonging to the parents of one of the group members, Tommy Miller. "O.K.," I said, "let's relax. You don't need to treat me as a teacher, twenty-five years since my last course to do with the starting capital we in any way I can. This is your meeting." Mr. McCormack had told me, and in some detail, about the youngsters I'd be dealing with. The three who charming little beasts, with tails as who had proposed the group in the first place. were sitting to my left were the ones rather angular—all shoulders and elbows. to me, but it was quite evident that were skinny kids, too. The three were of an age and were all tall for ten-year-olds. I had the impression during that first meeting that they looked rather alike, but this wasn't so. Their features were quite different. Perhaps from association, for they were close friends, they had just come to have a certain similarity of restrained gesture and of modulated voice. And with a face full of freckles and an infectious laugh, and Tommy Miller, a few months younger, was just an average, extroverted, well adjusted youngster, noisy and restless, tee-shirted and butch-barbered. The group exchanged looks to see the seemed to be elected. "Well, Mr. Henderson, a junior achievement group is a bunch of kids who get together to manufacture and sell things, and maybe make some money." Many of them wanted to buy mice or each. Tommy's ideas of pricing rather The usual products, of course, with these junior achievement efforts, are chemical specialties that can be made safely and that people will buy and It was on Tuesday—following the Thursday—that a lanky young man a wonder. sort of thing. Mr. McCormack had told me, though, that I might find these youngsters a bit more ambitious. "The Miller boy and Mary McCready," he had said, "have exceptionally high IQ's—around one forty disentangled himself from his car to classify. They have some of the attributes of exceptional pupils, but much of the time they seem to have little interest in their studies. The junior achievement idea has sparked their imaginations. Maybe it'll be just what they need." because we think you may have some "What's to lose," Tommy interjected. in the electronics field. A hi-fi sub-assembly of some kind." "How about a new detergent?" Hilary scattered from New York to Los Angeles, sent a kite to each one and offered to license the design. Result, That's cookbook chemistry. I mean a team except Tommy. Jeff lowered his feet from the picnic table and said, "Hi." sounds like another operation calling for capital investment. If we should keep the achievement group going for several summers, it might be possible later on to carry out a "Do you have a special field of interest?" despondency. "I'm not very technical. group wanted to raise some mice, I'd strain? One of the recognized laboratory strains? Healthy mice of the got the first four pairs from a pet "What is it?" "A whisker stiffener. It makes each "So I perceive. What is it?" chemistry. Cysteine thiolactone "I see. Just a mixture of stuff. And and to ask how we were progressing with our organization meeting. I'd forgotten all about organization, and that, according to all the articles I had perused, is most important to such groups. It's standard practice for every member of the group to be a company officer. Of course a keep the group going after school "Why not? The kids can sail young boy who doesn't know any better, that they'd each do what came "Child labor nothing. They're the employers. Jeff McCord and I will be the only employees—just at first, naturally. On the other hand, they "Even so, it's child labor, isn't it?" make. It was Mary, finally, who advanced the thought of kites. At first there was little enthusiasm, then Peter said, all, what's to lose?" "You know, we could work up something July 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. "and think about the small end. It'll work out all right." I wished that the youngsters weren't starting out by inventing a new article to manufacture, and risking an almost certain disappointment, but to copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and happenings with Marjorie and tried to recall all of the ideas which had been propounded. Most of them were impractical, of course, for a group of children to attempt, but several of them appeared quite attractive. Tommy, for example, wanted to up in a hurry—not engraved, for two colors in the same bottle—orange the blue ones designed to leave the Pete wanted to make a combination nail and wood screw. You'd Hilary, reluctantly forsaking his ideas on detergents, suggested we to reduce evaporation. These latter ideas had made unknowing "My," said Marjorie, "they're really smart boys and girls. Tommy Miller about the kite, even now. The fact want some security." I would give them a specimen signature. Oh, a mental vow to sign very few checks. figured what's to lose, and picked one. that evening, and Marjorie recognized that something was concerning the kite, and the youngsters embarking on a shopping trip for paper, glue and wood splints. There was no use who by mutual consent, was our authority on sales, didn't want to sell

<question>:
What is the most likely reason for the junior achievement group's shared characteristics?

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A They have experienced expected and unanticipated consequences of nuclear fallout
B Their parents are all members of the Ridgeville Commission
C They are all actually androids that have been programmed by scientists of the Ridgeville Commission
D They have been meeting secretly for years before they came together under the guise of the junior achievement group

<answer>:

B