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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But he didn’t wait for the hot further inspections of his own. At last he nodded slowly. “Hyper-catabolism, of course. I thought it might be. How long neither did he anticipate the horror of being the first! By LESTER DEL REY Illustrated by JOHNS words about whatever was the NEARLY TWO hundred were returning the pulse in could risk. If he made it, though.... automatic. Somehow, thinking his neck was pounding and his of his this year—and “Any particular emotional Harry. Maybe he’d even tell Harry the truth, once they got for breath and feeling his heart hammering in his chest. He’d been a fool to come to work, he realized. But with the Procyon was no telling what might turn up. Besides, that fool of a medicist had sworn the shot would cure any allergy or asthma. can’t see any other explanation. You’ve got a slight case of angina—nothing serious, but quite definite—as well as other signs of aging. I’m afraid the treatment She smiled dutifully at the time-worn joke, but he knew she wasn’t fooled. She’d cycled to a couple more centuries until though that, of course, was impossible. “Anything urgent on the Procyon and captured it. Jordan’s got a first time. Then it had required months of mental training, followed by crude mechanical and sat gazing at the report from Jordan that vanished at greater than the speed of light, equipped with every conceivable device to make conscious level and forced to operate. There had been impossible at Jordan’s hasty preliminary report. that worked those miracles had taken an incredible amount of study and finding a means of Now they did it with dozens of mechanical aids in addition to the hypnotic instructions—and after the treatment! But with all the equipment, it wasn’t impossible for a mistake Only his youngest son would have sent an elaborate tercentenary greeting verse—one that would with the eternal unconscious expectation that he would find himself suddenly young again. But that, of course, was ridiculous. an injection of some kind and that. Harry had nothing but praise for the solar system where most of the frame with glowing description and a plea for his father to join him there! “But I’ll be all right?” Cobb smiled the automatic reassurance of his profession. “We even in one of the improved Exodus shuttles. And even if Exodus ever got the super-light the discovery of the super-light missile and what it might mean. he should give up his work. The discovery that men could live practically forever had put a paper whose headlined feature carried a glowing account of such thing. A statement that never would. It was an evasion meant to give such an impression. The worry nagged at him all wasn’t ready to face Jordan yet. Jordan’s eyes seemed to sweep young—one of the few under a hundred who’d escaped deportation because of special ability—and patience was still foreign to when it was necessary because someone called across to him. Ordinarily, he was quick to support him. But Jordan wasn’t looking at by them, as he might be by “Antigravity!” His voice was real reason. Certainly they weren’t forcing themselves on him. He that Harry had been a complete nuisance, running around with the star’s designation....” Jordan cursed harshly. “So we begging for their secret in a couple of hundred years! While night’s sleep after a little relaxation. Even that failed him, though. He’d developed one of the finest made in two centuries the young were too conservative for really new thinking. There was a measure of truth in it, unfortunately. or other. drive works! That missile reached Sirius in less than ten days. We can have the secret of this antigravity in less than a early twenties. Would that reduce the slice of eternity that rejuvenation meant? And what about thirty, instead of the normal had happened to Sol? made no sense. “You mean you after all suppose something permanently? had gone wrong with him What? ” Jordan’s voice rattled the speaker. “Of course not! It took two accidents to get the thing back to us—and with a Procyon shuttle heard its signal. Pre-setting a course may take centuries, if we can ever master it. Even with Sirius expecting the drafted for building long enough now we can finish it in three Procyon in two weeks. We even know life can stand the trip. The rats were unharmed.” real damage such as the loss of power to rejuvenate. We can’t put human pilots into a ship with our He stopped, shocked by the “In the spring, a young man’s fancy,” he quoted to himself, and then shuddered. It hadn’t been that kind of spring for him—not this rejuvenation nor the last, nor the one before that. have the big ship. All we need is himself and partially succeeded, until he reached the doctor’s office. Then it was no longer necessary to frighten himself. The wrongness was too strong, no matter one volunteer!” words. He watched the smile vanish how professional Cobb’s smile! He didn’t hear the preliminary Or how about you? Do Jordan opened his mouth and you really want to risk losing the the doctor’s technical jargon. rest of your life rather than waiting for his fear, it seemed to vanish, leaving a coldness that numbed him. answer. NO SANE man would risk a chance for near eternity against such a relatively short wait. Heroism had belonged to those who knew their days were “Failed.” He stopped, and in a low, defeated tone. numbered, anyhow. The rejuvenation...?” Cobb sighed and yet seemed relieved. 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 buildings outside should we can make them better. Geriatric knowledge is still on record. We can fix the heart and all the rest. You’ll be in good physical condition, better than your grandfather—” dark hair. pronounce the words. He’d grown An immortal man had suddenly stop twice to catch his breath and fight against the pain that found death hovering on his said, and was surprised to find he meant it. The man had done all he could and had at least saved him the suspense of growing doubt and horrible eventual discovery. OUTSIDE ON the street, he for thousands of years. Their eternity was no longer a part of him. Even his car would outlast him. no longer wondering about the dangers that might possibly arise. Those wouldn’t matter much now. For a man who from his panic to leave him almost himself again. After all, there was nothing to worry about and a long drink in his hand. The alcohol combined with the reaction had thought of living almost forever, the Centauri system. There’s a Dr. Cobb whose reputation is very good, sir.” that might even be useful. In the future, men would need the super-light drive if they were to span much more of the Universe than now. And he could his, though. “Dr. Cobb, then,” he still, even if he could never see its finish. It would be cold comfort but it said. for him. Automatic habit carried him still riding her. He managed a grin and somehow the right words feigning it. “Then you’re all right?” “As all right as I’ll ever be,” he told her. “They tell me I’m just instead of the treasures he could build inside himself for the future ahead. He was getting positively childish! Yet he relished the feeling of 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 spend the long future as a cripple. “I’ll wait for you, sir,” Dubbins the low, massive medical building. It was almost too much consideration. a family, rather than a mere to Sirius. And we still wouldn’t to a precious few....” he remembered. “A precious few.” have proved it safe for human seemed precious to the old man then. over the intercom. “Jordan wants reflex, blood pressure, pulse and fluoroscope. Others involved complicated little gadgets that ran over his body, while meters as he switched on Jordan’s wire.

<question>:
Which word doesn't describe Jordan?

<options>:
A intelligent
B motivated
C impatient
D heroic

<answer>:

D