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

<passage>:
lines—little clothing being required in the artificially warmed city. They entered an elevator and dropped thirty stories to the from an ancient subway car, except that it was air-tight, and was hurled by magnetic attraction As they approached, a lean man, carrying a black bag, darted out of an elevator shaft opposite the door, ran across the corridor, and entered. They pushed in after They were in a little room, cut in two by a high brass grill. against the wall, that reminded one of the waiting room in an old railroad depot. In the grill was a little window, with a lazy, brown-eyed A little door gave access to the and The Alien Intelligence in SCIENCE WONDER STORIES , the grill. his bag frantically, raving at the sleepy boy. "Queek! I have tell you zee truth! I have zee most urgent necessity to go queekly. A patient The thin man in black, whom French heart-specialist, was dancing before the window, waving fiction authors ever to sit down the machine now. Russian diplomat from Moscow to Rio de Janeiro.... Two hundred seventy at the typewriter. When the vogue for science-fantasy altered in a rousing trio of space service. Regular installations all over the world in a year.... Ready now. Come on in." operas pressed a button. The door sprang open in the grill, and the frantic physician leaped through the order of the day, he produced Crucible of Power and when they it. "Hands at your sides, don't breathe. Ready!" He manipulated his dials and button. "Why, hello, Eric, old man!" were telling me about? Congratulations!" A bell jangled before him on the panel. "Just a minute. I've got a call." He punched the board again. Little bulbs lit and glowed for a second. The youth turned toward the half-hidden machine, spoke courteously. came from the machine. "Sir, what have you done with my overcame them. A few "None of your impertinence, by the validity of the notion that "Ah, a dog. Must have jumped off the crystal. You can have him sent on for three hundred wireless transmission of matter is the next big transportation frontier to be conquered. It is sir! I want my dog." clothing shimmering with artificial gems, waddled pompously out of the door through which the frantic French doctor had heavily across the room, and out into the corridor. Shrill words floated back: for the sake of survival on the orders are to use the Express merely between the sixteen designated stations, at New York, . Since then, he has written millions of words "Sure, old boy. I'd send you to heaven for that, if you'd give me the micrometer readings to set for what happens afterward." open again, and Eric led Nada Eric helped Nada to a place transmitted by the beam. It would look as if we were melting into the crystal." help support the gray, steel-ribbed glass roof above. Beyond, raid last night. But you better let me set you down in Hong Kong." A bell jangled. "So long," the youth called. Nada and Eric felt themselves slid a small typewriter out of its drawer, and began pecking at it impatiently. Nada.... But now we on a desert South Sea island. the television. "We'll find a nice dry cave, and have a fire in front of the sleep on. And pottery vessels to cook in. And you will find seeds and grown grain." Eric's novels, and watched the machine from the space before television screens. They thrilled at the simple, romantic lives his "But first we must find a flint-bed. Eric had settled down to the on, without finding where a provident nature had left them even back to our apartment." And then they went hand in hand, to the side of the room and punched a series of buttons on a panel—a simple way of ordering breakfast sent up the automatic shaft from the kitchens below. Nada Stokes-Harding was also you've been through—I don't know what. But I'll have you "You didn't bring any matches, dear?" "Matches! Of course not! there in five minutes. My private car—" We're going back to Nature." soon." "If dry wood were gold dust, we couldn't buy a hot dog." "Eric, that reminds me that I'm hungry." He confessed to a few pangs of his own. They turned their attention meat, instead of drinking synthetic contemplation of each other's off the grime of another planet. in bed. At the end of the month he dollars and eighty cents, swarmed about them in clouds. Then came a sound from the delivered his promised story to seemingly not inconvenienced in Nada clung against Eric. the least by the inclement elements, his publishers, a thrilling tale of bringing the game home to you! But I'm afraid there is no way.—Wait! The Cosmic Express." rooms, nice and warm and bright, with hot foods coming up the shaft whenever we pushed the button, and the gay crowds in the park, and my old typewriter." "Eric?" she called softly. "Yes, dear." The youth took the money, The roaring outside was closer. And suddenly it was answered by another raucous bellow, at considerable distance, that echoed The fearful sounds were repeated, alternately. And always And then an infernal din broke out in the darkness. Bellows. Screams. Deafening of electricity are united to form an atom." "Fine! I thought you said you . And Millikan's Eric and Nada clung to each to convert the matter to be carried into power, send it out as a radiant beam and focus the beam to convert it back into atoms at the destination." carry more energy than long ones. The Express Ray is an electromagnetic vibration of frequency far higher than that of from the invisible monsters. The pitiful roof collapsed on the bedraggled get any recognizable object, not even how they get the radiation moments later, they were lying on the transparent table in the Cosmic Express office, with all those great mirrors and prisms the light that passes through a camera lens. The photographic on the plate—just the same as the Express Ray picks up an object and sets it down on the lens, using light rays, picks up a "An analogy from television might help. You know that by means of the scanning disc, the picture and reproduces it again grill, fairly bubbling apologies. "So sorry—an accident—inconceivable. through the object, progressively, dissolving layers of the thickness of a single atom, which are accurately reproduced at the other focus of the instrument—which receiving instrument is required, as in television. The object is built up of an infinite series of I've had the fellow locked up, and the 'dry-laws' are on the plane layers, at the focus of the power is required to rebuild the atoms. Do you understand, dear?" I will be perfectly satisfied to get worry! Here comes breakfast. Let me butter your toast." A bell had rung at the shaft. She ran to it, and returned with ate a hearty meal with his pretty dainty dishes, which she set on a spouse, after they had washed a great silver tray, laden with opposite each other, and ate, getting little side table. They sat down faces as from the excellent food. When they had finished, she carried the tray to the shaft, slid it in a slot, and touched a button—thus disposing of the culinary cares of the morning. She ran back to Eric, who was as much satisfaction from at his typewriter. "Oh, darling! I'm thrilled to death about the Cosmic Express! society—" "We can go to their office—it's only five minutes. The chap that operates the machine for the company is a pal of mine. He's not supposed to take passengers except between the offices they have scattered about the

<question>:
Where do Eric and Nada's meals come from?

<options>:
A Their meals are synthesized using light rays to reproduce a picture of food onto a plate.
B Their meals are delivered by a dumbwaiter.
C They have a food replicator in their apartment.
D Their meals are ordered on a device that sends messages to the apartment building kitchens.

<answer>:

D