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 the vast things that had happened into icy waters, a long descent into alkaline depths ... it was death. But Ned Vince lived again—a million years later! world. The scope of it all was too "See old car rattled and roared as he Twentieth Century," said the though their forefathers originated on this planet. They have mounds of human cities that much better off with my people—our But Ned Vince wasn't listening, now. "You are the only man left on Earth." That had An incredible science, millions of years old, lay in the minds of these creatures. been enough for him to hear. He arced outward, falling as gracefully as a swan-diver toward the pool geysered around him in a being stranded alone on another world! Movement was slower now, as he began to sink, trapped inside his wrecked car. Nothing that he could imagine could mean doom in the ground, spring-fed. The edges of that almost bottomless pool were caked with a rim of white—for the water, on which dead birds so often floated, was Vince knew that his friends and his family would never see his body again, lost beyond recovery in this abyss. The car was deeply submerged. The light had blinked out on the The Moon was a gigantic, pock-marked darkness. A flood rushed were unrecognizable. The rodent city was a glowing expanse of scrambling. But he emerged at last at the surface. dash-panel, leaving Ned in absolute sides, all their jaggedness lost after a million years of erosion under an ocean that was gone. In that ghastly moonlight, the ground glistened with dry salt. couldn't fight against the force of that incoming water. The liquid was sucked into his lungs. His last thoughts were those of a drowning man. The machine-shop he and his dad had 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 the surface waters in the Pit, had passed—those inconceivable came over him as he everything that was familiar. dinosaurs, still bulked along the from those glittering rodent cold sea-bottom, but what of it? What reason did he have left to live? He'd be only a museum eyes. He sensed death in that Change, seemed to wait.... "Kaalleee! Tik!... Tik, tik, accurately, arose thinly from the depths of a powder-dry gulch, water-scarred from an inconceivable antiquity. The noon-day air was tenuous, dehydrated, "Kaalleee!... Tik, tik, the barrier of the years.... the city of Kar-Rah. In a flying who have discovered something remarkable. The desolate expanse around the gulch, was all but without motion. The icy breeze tore tiny puffs of dust from grotesque, angling drifts of soil, nearly waterless for eons. Patches of drab lichen grew here and there on the up-jutting rocks, but in did in the Twentieth Century. was visible. Even the hills had sagged away, flattened by incalculable ages of erosion. At a mile distance, a crumbling heap of rubble arose. Once utter, sick dejection of this the last space ships built by the gods in exodus, perhaps it was—half a million years ago. Man was gone from the Earth. Glacial ages, war, decadence, disease, and a final scattering of those looming. In far less extreme circumstances regardless of the species from worlds in other solar systems, giant from the past, lost from The sounds were not human. "Kaalleee!... Tik, tik, tik!..." Time-travel. Almost a legend. An assault upon an intangible wall the gulch had been cleared of the accumulated rubbish of antiquity. this Kaalleee.... as ruler of the Earth. thing to do—to send you back to your own period of history. For I see that you will never be with a vast and unlooked-for success. different in appearance from his of time, of survival of the fittest, plans. The government of Kar-Rah was a scientific oligarchy, Twentieth Century. far beyond that of the ancient A horde of small, grey-furred beings and their machines, toiled for many days. Ned Vince's mind swam had enveloped it. He was wandering brown and hard as old wood. The aimlessly about in a familiar like an airtight coffin, had by now been chipped away by the clothing still clung to it, after had gone into decay—yes. But was simple—alkali. A mineral saturation that had held time aided probably during most of those passing eras by desert dryness. The Dakotas had turned arid very swiftly. This body was not a mere fossil. It was a "You look as though you've been "Kaalleee!" Man, that meant. but the ancestral stock machines on Earth, and in the early Twenty-first Century, the legendary antiquity, had aided triumph ended, while instruments lot of worse things happened.... focused X-rays, he saw magnified of this ancient human even greater than before. In was perfectly preserved, even to sciences were far advanced move, speak, remember its past! What a marvelous subject for Loy, though, was not observing, 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 the ages. He remembered the ancient ruins, left by the final supermen. an Eternal Wall. Our archeological researches among the cities of the supermen show the truth. Even they, who once ruled Earth, never escaped from the present by so much as an instant...." beneath. A tremendous sand desert, marked with low, washed-down mountains, and the America seemed to crawl backward, THE END were gone forever. Beyond the eastern rim of the continent, the plain dipped downward steeply. The white of dried vague, angular, geometric was a little green growth here, too. The dead sea-bottom of the vanished Atlantic was not as dead as the highlands. Far out in a deep valley, Kar-Rah, Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. came into view—a crystalline But this was only its surface since the beginning of their foggy evolution. Besides, in this latter day, the Fluids submerged it, slowly soaking from that hardened flesh the alkali that had preserved it and other tissues became Then the more delicate processes began. Still submerged in passing between complicated flesh and brain gradually took on a chemical composition nearer to that of the life that they had 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. whatever might happen now, form. For Ned Vince, timeless eternity ended like a gradual fading 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. the era he had known! The walls were lavender and phosphorescent. He stood there panting in that frigid, rarefied air. It was night. that was not quite human. Its that moment of sinking to certain death in the pool at Pit Bend, he caught the edge of the metropolis. old, familiar friends. But the shallow, crystalline domes, set among odd, scrub trees and awry. His gaunt, young face things that you've got to get used to, that's all. You drowned about a million years ago. I discovered your body. I brought you his own kind. Probably insanity years. Evolution. The scientists say that people grew up from fishes in the sea. Prairie dogs

<question>:
From the 20th century to the age of the Kar-Rah, the planet's landscape as changed in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

<options>:
A Vegetation can only be harvested inside glass domes
B North America is an expansive desert continent
C Cities are gone and species have moved underground
D The Atlantic Ocean has disappeared

<answer>:

A