Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
He’d been driven to it, he knew, as he watched the man’s amazed face snap from the screen. From NEARLY TWO hundred years of habit carried the the first suspicion of his trouble, floor. Giles made the expected comments, smiled the proper smiles and greeted his staff by the right names, but it was purely automatic. Somehow, thinking Giles thought as carefully as He’d been a fool to come to work, he realized. But with the Procyon heart hammering in his chest. Giles heard his secretary come of aging. I’m afraid the treatment She smiled dutifully at the time-worn joke, but he knew she Giles remembered that Dubbins better than he knew himself—which was more important. It hadn’t been a joke about his growing old, after all. But now, in a few days, wouldn’t be hard, he he’d be his old—no, of course not—his young self again! Even his hair had seemed thinner, though that, of course, was impossible. thought. He’d hardly recognized He resented every second of it. It was as if the almost forgotten specter of age stood beside him, counting the seconds. But at last face and circles under his eyes. light-pulser was adjusted to his Somewhere in every human brain lay the memory of what his cells had been like when he was young. that worked those miracles had taken an incredible amount of did it usually in a single sitting, Giles dropped the report wearily with the full transformation of the body taking less than a week after the treatment! could relax so easily.... He came out of it without He didn’t need to see the signature Only his youngest son would have sent an elaborate tercentenary greeting verse—one that would fatigue on the operator’s face told him it had been a long and difficult job. He stretched experimentally, find himself suddenly young on the first projection. broken Giles’ fifth marriage. “That’s all for now, Mr. Giles. most of the frame with glowing description and a plea for his father to join him there! GILES SNORTED and turned the young against the background of an alien but attractive world. He had no desire to spend of his profession. “We haven’t lost a patient in two hundred years, to my knowledge.” 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. an end to most family ties going to be fine,” Giles answered. Giles grunted in irritation. He when it had been covered and recovered, he could still sense the glances of the others, as if he through the meal, listening to the conversation about him only when it was necessary because patience was still foreign to him. Then the frown vanished as he’d never regretted it. But tonight his own group irritated him. He puzzled over it, finding no Giles forced his attention on that Harry had been a complete various nostrums, giving him no peace. Constant questions about how he felt, constant little looks “One of my sons—” Giles night’s sleep after a little relaxation. Giles had heard it all before. Even that failed him, though. He’d developed one of the finest chess collections in the world, but loses a little each time. And the no real progress had been made in two centuries carving his hands seemed to be all thumbs. None of the other interests he’d developed through the years helped to add to the richness of living now. He gave it up and went to bed—to have the fragment of that populations fill,” Giles repeated the Earth fit for our longevity. We can wait. We’ll have to.” THE YOUNGER man stared at him with the strange puzzled look Giles had seen too often “Wait a minute.” Giles felt the doubts at the doctor’s words. He got up once to stare at himself the stranger in the mirror as he Giles shook his head at what and there were hollows in his “In the spring, a young man’s then shuddered. It hadn’t been that kind of spring for him—not this rejuvenation nor the last, nor the one GILES TRIED to stop scaring It occurred to Giles then that rest of your life rather than waiting a couple more centuries until we know it’s safe? If you do, I’ll Giles shook his head, interrupting for a second Giles’ heart caught Now that he knew there was reason for his fear, it seemed to vanish, leaving a coldness that numbed him. “I’d rather know the whole truth,” he said. His voice sounded of him. He looked sick, for he had no against such a relatively short wait. Heroism had belonged to those who knew their days were slowly. The belligerence ran out and clicked off. Giles turned to me, too, Mr. Giles. But—well, to simplify it, no memory is perfect—even cellular memory. It plan for short-term benefits. Usually it was too easy to realize that, and the sight of the solid, time-enduring buildings outside should have given him a sense of security. Today, though, nothing seemed He faced away from Giles, to help. He felt choked, imprisoned, somehow lost the city beyond the window blurred as he time scale than we used to have—but it’s in centuries, not in eons. For everybody, not just It was no consolation. Giles “And then....” Giles couldn’t old and he’d grow older. And eventually he’d die! An immortal man had suddenly found death hovering on his trail. The years had dwindled and stop twice to catch his breath and fight against the pain that 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. Giles hadn’t heard since the man OUTSIDE ON the street, he looked up at the Sun and then at the buildings built to last eternity was no longer a part of him. Even his car would outlast him. with the members. For the GILES FOUND himself lying moment, though, he’d slipped back into the old ways. for thousands of years. Their much now. For a man who had thought of living almost forever, almost himself again. After all, there was nothing to worry about thirty years was too short now Giles wanted no kindness. Giles puzzled over it doubtfully. could still fill his time with work—work that might even be useful. In the future, men would morose man the last few times Universe than now. And he could speed up the work in some ways still, even if he could never see he’d seen him, but that could Giles heard the other man’s hardly explain his taking a twenty-year keep busy enough to forget sometimes that the years were gone for him. Automatic habit carried him for the words to be distinguishable. He finished the drink, feeling Giles frowned. He’d expected he told her. “They tell me I’m just growing old.” This time her laugh was heartier. on, he’d be missing the old days when he’d had a mansion and counted his wealth in possessions, instead of the treasures he could build inside himself for the future ahead. He was getting positively childish! Yet he relished the feeling of around. Now he’d taken to walking, face hadn’t changed much. Giles as so many others had, for Giles nodded, got out slackening of them in Harry’s a very pleasant world. He read Harry’s note again, with its praise for the planet and its invitation. He wondered if years of practice. Giles felt better, realizing it wouldn’t be one of the younger men. over, and led Giles into a room He listened as Giles stumbled itself. “The years dwindle down to a precious few....” he remembered. Those dwindling years had been precious once. He unexpectedly At Giles’ look, he smiled faintly. seemed precious to the old man then. that was forbidden. The years He inspected it and began making tests. Some were older than Giles could remember—knee Giles shrugged and reached for

<question>:
How does Giles change with the knowledge of his aging?

<options>:
A He resigns to his fate, because he doesn’t know what else to do.
B He doesn’t. He goes right back to doing what he’d been doing out of habit.
C He feels a new fondness for his son and family.
D He shows a much greater appreciation for every aspect of his life.

<answer>:

C