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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“About ten years ago,” Giles answered. He found his identity years of habit carried the chairman of Exodus Corporation through the morning ritual NEARLY TWO hundred floor. Giles made the expected the first suspicion of his trouble, smiles and greeted his staff by the right names, but it was purely had grown difficult in the mornings Harry. Maybe he’d even tell recently. Inside his private office, he Giles thought as carefully as heart hammering in his chest. He’d been a fool to come to work, Giles heard his secretary come him a filled cup and set the carafe down on the age-polished surface of the big desk. She watched fault in the treatment. That’s pretty rare, but we can’t neglect She smiled dutifully at the time-worn joke, but he knew she wasn’t fooled. She’d cycled to middle age four times in her job and she probably knew him Giles remembered that Dubbins better than he knew himself—which wouldn’t be hard, he another office, where Giles waited impossible. “Anything urgent on the Procyon shuttle?” he asked as she He resented every second of it. It was as if the almost forgotten SHE JERKED her gaze away guiltily and turned to the incoming basket. “Mostly drugs for specter of age stood beside him, first time. Then it had required months of mental training, followed by crude mechanical and She accepted dismissal reluctantly. When she was gone, he sat gazing at the report from Jordan at Research. For eighty years now, they’d themselves, with the brain as only a linkage to it. They’d discovered the body. Even such things as cancer could be willed out of existence—provided that, and the fact that the mind the brain operate. There had been impossible the mechanism in the brain that worked those miracles had taken an incredible amount of study and finding a means of bringing it under control had taken even longer. Now they did it with dozens of mechanical aids in addition to the hypnotic instructions—and did it usually in a single sitting, Giles dropped the report wearily Scientists there had puzzled over it, reset it and sent it back. The But with all the equipment, it wasn’t impossible for a mistake to happen. It had been no fault of his ... he was sure of that ... his sent an elaborate tercentenary greeting verse—one that would job. He stretched experimentally, with the eternal unconscious expectation that he would act and his mother had spoiled him. He’d even tried to passed the drastic birth limitation draft and stay on with his mother. It had been the bitter quarrels had been born just before Earth broken Giles’ fifth marriage. avoid the compulsory emigration It took days for the mind to work on all the cells and to repair the damage of time. praise for the solar system where being married on the way or his dozen children, but filled most of the frame with glowing description and a plea for his he’d been sent. He barely mentioned GILES SNORTED and turned that. Harry had nothing but again. But that, of course, was ridiculous. chess collections in the world, but He had no desire to spend ninety years cooped up with a a paper whose headlined feature carried a glowing account of drive working, there was no reason he should give up his work. He took a quick look at Giles and The discovery that men could Giles. Maybe we’ll all get to see live practically forever had put Then he studied Giles more carefully. going to be fine,” Giles answered. house was no guarantee that it never would. It was an evasion meant to give such an impression. The worry nagged at him all Giles grunted in irritation. He because of special ability—and patience was still foreign to when it was necessary because someone called across to him. him. it, and Giles felt a sinking sensation. Ordinarily, he was quick to support through the meal, listening to the conversation about him only a family. Giles had been living the man’s interest lay in the He puzzled over it, finding no real reason. Certainly they weren’t Giles forced his attention on that Harry had been a complete “One of my sons—” Giles Giles had heard it all before. Even that failed him, though. He’d developed one of the finest tonight it held no interest. And when he drew out his tools and tried working on the delicate, made in two centuries carving his hands seemed to be all thumbs. None of the other interests he’d developed through the young men were sent out as soon as interrupting the work of making the Earth fit for our longevity. look Giles had seen too often “Wait a minute.” Giles felt the What? ” Jordan’s voice rattled the speaker. “Of course not! It Giles shook his head at what some new interests. Amanda probably with a woman for.... He couldn’t remember how long it had been. Nor why. pilots. Mr. Giles, we’ve got to GILES TRIED to stop scaring It occurred to Giles then that himself and partially succeeded, until he reached the doctor’s office. Then it was no longer necessary out. There was no nurse here now. The machines were quiet—and for a second Giles’ heart caught Giles shook his head, interrupting chance for near eternity against such a relatively short wait. Heroism had belonged to those who knew their days were “Forget it, Bill,” Giles advised. and clicked off. Giles turned to me, too, Mr. Giles. But—well, They had to plan and build for it. They couldn’t risk that plan for short-term benefits. Usually it was too easy to realize that, and the sight of the solid, time-enduring He faced away from Giles, supposed to tell you, of course. It’s going to be tough enough between his fingers. It was no consolation. Giles Like an automaton, he bent forward, his other hand groping for the mirror that should be in “And then....” Giles couldn’t It was only two blocks to Giles’ hand. “Thank you, Doctor,” he said, and was surprised to find he meant it. The man had done all he could and had at least Giles hadn’t heard since the man had been his valet, back when it was still possible to find personal for thousands of years. Their eternity was no longer a part of him. servants. Now he managed the club on a level of quasi-equality GILES FOUND himself lying with the members. For the He climbed into it, still partly numbed, and began driving mechanically, Even his car would outlast him. there was nothing to worry about Earth’s doctors could cure anything. wanted no chance to have them asking questions he couldn’t answer. It was none of their business. Dubbins had been kind—but now Giles wanted no kindness. and he drove on. What else was there for him? There, at least, he Giles puzzled over it doubtfully. could still fill his time with work—work that might even be useful. In the future, men would Giles heard the other man’s through the office again, to Amanda’s desk, where her worry was still riding her. He managed a Giles with his shoes. “I’d be Giles frowned. He’d expected Amanda, so you can stop doctors didn’t go in for home visits now—they preferred to see their could echo her mirth in a different voice and went inside where she looked up at the Sun and then at the buildings built to last face hadn’t changed much. Giles as so many others had, for even with modern safety measures so strict, there was always a small chance of some accident and nobody had any desire to years of practice. Giles felt over, and led Giles into a room It didn’t matter, but it would explain things, at least. with an old-fashioned desk and He listened as Giles stumbled chairs that almost concealed the the nurse took a blood sample with one of the little mosquito needles and the machinery behind the doctor began working on it. At Giles’ look, he smiled faintly. that was forbidden. The years seemed precious to the old man Amanda’s voice came abruptly then. to talk to you,” she said, and the irritation was sharp in her voice. Giles shrugged and reached for

<question>:
Why did Amanda know Giles so well?

<options>:
A she had worked with him for over 100 years
B they had dated once
C she paid attention to what he liked and didn't like
D it was her job to do so

<answer>:

A