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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Once the deal was made, they left it up to him to make the decisions. as it had in his own time. Oceans, mountains, and to a lesser extent, deserts, spreading over him, the are fairly permanent even against man's corroding efforts. circle of steel that was the mouth of getaway. After I give it to this Howard the run, don't I?" And at that moment, the universe America has been united into one unit. Today, there are only eight nations in the world." nation, Mr. Prantera. All North There was a falling through all "That's a helluva long way to go on "Where's the nearest?" of every muscle and nerve. There was pain, horror and tumultuous fear. didn't, huh? What happens after I doubling and twisting and twitching And he came out of it as quickly He brought his thinking to the era." That at least meant that whatever "If I understand your idiom correctly, the rap was it wouldn't be too and collecting up all the bread?" "No banks! You gotta have banks!" method of distribution well over a found we were devoting as much time to financial matters in all their endless ramifications—including bank robberies—as we were to productive efforts. So we turned to more been through a most harrowing the drink and bolted it. He put the let's get down to facts. Summa the things you guys say don't stick together so good. Now, first place, Warren Brett-James said soothingly, which seemed to be the prevailing "Prepare yourself for somewhat Indeed, it is sometimes never this city." "Well, that's handy, eh?" Joe scratched himself thoughtfully. "You this character could have known that. mother had died in childbirth. His leaves the house all by hisself. O.K., so I can make plans, like, to give it dispose of him?" ... during what? He hadn't the I come to give it to him and he gives it to me instead." an organization he is forming. It "You think I'd be seen dead wearing this stuff? What is this, some religious eh?" he said sarcastically. "Then what happens? How do I get out of the Where do I hide out? Where do I "Dump the heat?" "Get rid of the gun. You want I upon a wide boulevard of what was What is him, "but, you see, we no longer punish flatly, "What's it all about?" That took a long, unbelieving moment matter what they do? That's crazy. Everybody'd be running around giving it to everybody else." "The motivation for crime has realization would be a shock to you," The other put down the unaccepted person who commits a violence against another is obviously in need of medical care. And, consequently, receives it." failure, were now far away. "Where would you go?" vengeance, of the measures that might be taken by Big Louis on his The other was heavier and more But that didn't explain the view brief and painless, believe me." Joe said coldly, "And what happens after you have accomplished your mission, we plan to turn ourselves Prantera, wouldn't it? The maternal linage was almost universally "Now I'm beginning to wonder over again, what'd'ya wanta give it to into the piece atavistic, evil genius. We are afraid for our institutions if his plans are allowed to mature." "Well if you got things so good, everybody's got it made, like, who'd The doctor nodded at the validity is a unique animal. Physically he matures at approximately the age of thirteen. However, mental maturity of its means of delivery. He took up and adjustment is often not fully realized until thirty or even more. achieved. Before such maturity is "What's it all about, huh?" reached, our youth are susceptible to romantic appeal. Nationalism, chauvinism, racism, the supposed glory of the military, all seem romantic to the immature. They rebel at the orderliness of present society. They seek entertainment in excitement. Citizen finds his recruits among the young." that." Temple-Tracy is aware of this and screws everything up. But the way "I am afraid you have no alternative," He let the sentence fall away as he realized the impossibility. "You mean there's no place in the had been solved. repelled by the very conception of what they had planned. that they had got in the clutch, the years after the last memory you to those last memories and his project. It wasn't any answer though. you guys better let me in on what's this all about." to feel the comfortable, pleasurable, through to them. Or, at least, that they were to him. Finally he said, "If I get this, you "That is correct." "That is correct." his feet. "I'm gettin' outta here." belt and beneath the jacketlike garment "Let's start all over again. I got this He left them and entered the building. soft. "They are all dead, Mr. Prantera. Their children are all dead, and their grandchildren." The two men of the future said nothing more for long minutes while something. Finally he said, "What's this bit "That is why we brought you here, the interruption. "There is small remember that at the point when we ... I might say, whose demise would probably have caused small dismay to society." this here is?" this age, nor have there been for over a century and a half." line you're in these days you needa in some gutter with a lotta holes in complicated mess was growing. And the things he knew—for Jessie and Tony and the others, for his favorite already he was beginning to long for story, though. First off, I better tell is simply not within us to take the life of a fellow creature—not to speak of a fellow man." THE END Joe snapped: "Everything you guys two." for you, Chief, is to give it to those say sounds crazy. Let's start all over "In your day you were confronted with national and international, problems. Just as we are today and just as nations were a century or a millennium ago." "Sure, O.K., so we had problems. I depressions and dictators and like that." that the problems of your day were solved. Hadn't they been, the world most surely would have destroyed itself. Wars? Our pedagogues are hard put to convince their students that such ever existed. More than a century and a half ago our society eliminated the reasons for international conflict. For that matter," he added musingly, "we eliminated most international boundaries. Depressions? Shortly after your own period, man awoke to the fact that he had achieved to the point where it was possible to produce an abundance for all with a minimum of toil. Overnight, for all practical purposes, the whole world was industrialized, automated. The second industrial revolution was accompanied by revolutionary changes in almost every field, certainly in every found, Mr. Prantera, that it is difficult for a man to be free so long as others are still enslaved. Today the democratic ethic has reached a pinnacle never dreamed of in your own era." "So everybody's got it made. What I wanta know is what's all this about race unprotected from its disease. We had thought our vaccines immunized us." "What's that suppose to mean?" The other nodded. "Such men are unique. They have a drive ... a drive to power which exceeds by far the ambitions of the average man. They are genii in their way, Mr. Prantera, genii of evil. Such a genius of evil has appeared on the current scene." "Now we're getting somewheres," him. O.K. What's in it for me?" As I understand Californian law of the period, your life to doubt their word. Reston-Farrell said, "As to reward, psychiatric therapy will soon remove the flow of the time stream. There can be no return to your own era." assimilating, but this was the final involved, the better. to do with the process that had enabled

<question>:
What central theme of the story is revealed in the conclusion?

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A The more good you do for others, the more opportunity for them to criticize you
B If someone is willing to take a life, you cannot trust them to make moral decisions
C When cornered, threatened creatures will do anything to survive
D The prosperity of a nation is more important than any individual life

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B