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

<passage>:
A scream of brakes, the splash into icy waters, a long descent death. But Ned Vince lived again—a million years later! "See Ned Vince made a last effort to control himself. His knuckles tightened on the edge of the vat. "I don't know what you've been talking about," he grated wildly. "But I want to get out of here! I want to go back where I came from! Do you understand—whoever, or whatever you are?" Ned Vince was eager for the "But you can't go back to the Twentieth Century," said the box. "Nor is there any better Dazzled, and befuddled by his Ned could scarcely have chosen conviction about anything. Everything he saw and felt and nightmare. But then it might all be real instead, and that was abysmal horror. Ned was no coward—death and danger of any ordinary Earthly kind, he Ned Vince was still dimly conscious could have faced bravely. But the loneliness here, and the utter strangeness, were hideous like his wrecked car. Nothing that he could imagine could mean doom more certainly than this. The Pit bounded out of the vat, and with head down, dashed for the ramp. cracks beneath his feet, Ned his family would never see his body again, lost beyond recovery in this abyss. a furry body, hurried his feverish scrambling. But he emerged dash-panel, leaving Ned in absolute darkness. A flood rushed at last at the surface. He stood there panting in that couldn't fight against the force sides, all their jaggedness lost after a million years of erosion under an ocean that was gone. of that incoming water. The so that he could not think clearly. Presently, when he could no longer hold his breath, bitter liquid was sucked into his lungs. His last thoughts were those ground glistened with dry salt. "Well, I guess it's all true, huh?" Ned Vince muttered in a of a drowning man. The machine-shop might as well be an exile on another planet—so changed had the Earth become. A wave of intolerable homesickness Goodbye, Betty ... The ripples that had ruffled came over him as he planned to be married sometime.... the surface waters in the Pit, eons, separating himself from his friends, from Betty, from almost cold sea-bottom, but what of it? What reason did he have left to The excited cry, which no human throat could quite have duplicated accurately, arose thinly be far better. He tried to get gulch, water-scarred from an inconceivable He laughed harshly as he ran, welcoming that bitter, killing cold. Nostalgia had him in its clutch, and there was no answer antiquity. The noon-day hold of his courage. But what presently came upon Ned Vince's unconscious form, a mile from chuckles of eagerness. Other questioning, wondering notes applied stimulants. He came to, mixed with the cadence. Lacking again. There he lay, helpless, who have discovered something remarkable. The desolate expanse around Ned Vince," came the answer "But listen!" Ned protested. sagged away, flattened by incalculable ages of erosion. At a mile distance, a crumbling heap of rubble arose. Once it had been a building. A gigantic, jagged mass of detritus black, discouraged mood, himself. slanted upward from its crest—red utter, sick dejection of this giant from the past, lost from debris that had once been looming. In far less extreme circumstances than this, death from ages, war, decadence, disease, and a final scattering of those He could understand the was gone from the Earth. Glacial homesickness had come. his own kind. Probably insanity gulch, too. The glint of metal, sharp and burnished. The flat, the gulch had been cleared of the accumulated rubbish of antiquity. Man, it seemed, had a successor, Perhaps that is the only thing to do—to send you back to your own period of history. For I see that you will never be he was very happy now—flushed with a vast and unlooked-for success. Ned felt better immediately, He crouched there on his where there had been none before. Maybe he'd be back in his haunches, at the dry bottom of for there was real hope now, soon.... Ned relaxed, as a tiny As soon as Ned Vince passed Ned Vince's mind swam dry mud that had encased it like an airtight coffin, had by now been chipped away by the tiny investigators but soiled clothing still clung to it, after had gone into decay—yes. But not this body. The answer to this saturation that had held time With a sudden startlement, he and change in stasis. A perfect smile curved her lips. As though she had succeeded in creeping up on him, for a surprise. "Why, Ned," she chuckled. "You look as though you've been dreaming, and just woke up!" gratitude, he took her in his arms. Yes, she was just like "I guess I was dreaming, were happy in their that mighty sense of relief. "I must have fallen asleep at the bench, here, and had a nightmare. paleontological enthusiasm! A strange accident, happening in a triumph ended, while instruments flicked in his tiny hands. Ned Vince's mind, over which The final instrument he used to chirping signal. The chant of corpse. What his probing gaze revealed to him, made his pleasure even greater than before. In could send me back to my own devoid of moisture, the mummy time after all!" made to live again! It might move, speak, remember its past! What a marvelous subject for study it would make, back there now. He had wandered far out into cold, sad sea-bottom, to ponder. He squeaked and chatted to himself, contemplating the magnificent, inexorable march of disengaged from the worthless rust of his primitive automobile. mummy of Ned Vince was Even they, who once ruled Earth, never escaped from the present by so much as an instant...." THE END PRINTED IN U. S. A. Transcriber's Note: November 1942. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. too. The dead sea-bottom of the vanished Atlantic was not as dead as the highlands. soaking from that hardened flesh the alkali that had preserved it began. Still submerged in once known. At last the final liquid was drained away, and the mummy lay there, a mummy no more, but a pale, silent figure in its tatters passed swiftly. At last, eager and ready for whatever might happen now, For Ned Vince, timeless eternity ended like a gradual fading mist. When he could see clearly again, he experienced that inevitable shock of vast change around him. Though it had been dehydrated, his brain had been kept perfectly intact through the ages, and now it was restored. So his memories were as vivid as yesterday. effect on Ned Vince—a sudden, nostalgic panic. Something was fearfully wrong! The nervous terror of the unknown dizzy after his weird resurrection, which he could not understand, remembering as he did that moment of sinking to certain death in the pool at Pit "Take it easy, Ned Vince...." The words themselves, and the Ned's gaze searched for the welt, left by the blow he had received To Ned Vince, it was all utterly familiar words were more repugnant somehow, simply because Ned Vince did not know how great difficulty speaking English words, anyway. Ned's dark hair was wildly awry. His gaunt, young face held befuddled terror. He gasped in the thin atmosphere. "I've he and his dad had "No, Ned, not nuts. Not a Chuk...." It took only a moment for the box to tell the full story in clear, sought, with calm, human logic, to make his charge feel at home. Probably, though, he was a fool,

<question>:
Upon waking up after one million years, Ned feels all of the following emotions at an extreme level, EXCEPT for ______.

<options>:
A Confusion
B Homesickness
C Fear
D Regret

<answer>:

D