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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As the years went by, Martin began to lose even his detached interest the sights. Most of the time Martin spent in watching the sea—and he could fool himself into thinking that there was some purpose to this journey. He'd come to believe that perhaps what his life lacked was purpose, and for a while he kept looking for meaning everywhere, to the off without them. Martin was no exception. He'd never had it this cousin's utter disgust. purpose nor malice was enough he was still immeasurably bored. "Where do you suppose Conrad has been all this time?" Martin idly asked He had often fancied that Conrad would prove to be the most stimulating member of the whole generation. But it seemed unlikely that he would ever have a chance for a conversation with the young man. More than one conversation, anyhow. and man and will—to fight, so there was a sterile peace for a long time. The Interregnum roamed the seas restlessly, with her load of So Martin held his peace, because, on the whole, he liked things the passengers from the future, plus one bored and aging contemporary. She One day the truant officer came to ask why Martin hadn't been coming he just watched to see what she'd do next. Already he had begun to assume the detached role of a spectator. Raymond. Martin missed the old neighborhood, though. He missed having other It was then that Martin began to realize that either the whole lot of When Martin was sixteen, Raymond took him aside for the talk Ninian had Martin nodded gravely. He was a quiet boy now, his brief past a dim and continued. "Which is distressing—though, of course, it's not as if they were people. Besides, the government has been talking about passing laws to do away with the—well, abuses and things like that, and I'm sure someday everything will come out all right. However, Conrad is so impatient." "I've told you—our world is precisely the same as this one!" Raymond snapped. "We just come a couple of centuries or so later, that's all. But remember, our interests are identical. We're virtually the same people ... although it is amazing what a difference two hundred odd years of progress and polish can make in a species, isn't it?" He continued more mildly: "However, even you ought to be able to understand that we can't make machinery without metal. We need food. past and think in the future. he had discovered that Raymond was perhaps the most intelligent of the lot. Somewhere in that relatively short span of time, his line or—more frightening—his race had lost something vital. Unaware of the near-contempt in which his young ancestor held him, "Oh, I do!" Martin said. He had pieced the whole thing together for himself long since, but he wanted to hear how Raymond would put it. "Unfortunately, Professor Farkas has just perfected the time transmitter. Those government scientists are so infernally officious—always inventing such senseless things. It's supposed to in time and "eliminate!" their common great-grandfather. In that way, there would be no space-drive, and, hence, the Terrestrials would never get to the other planets and oppress the local aborigines. Raymond looked annoyed. "It's the way," he said, "to do away with it, rather than find a solution. Would you destroy a whole society in order to root out a single injustice?" "Not if it were a good one otherwise." of eliminating our great-grandfather—because our great-grandfather was such a good Raymond turned a deep rose. "Well, doesn't that just go to prove you a rush. "I wormed the whole thing out of him and all of us—the other cousins and me—held a council of war, as it were, and we decided it was our moral duty to go back in time ourselves and protect you." He Martin had, of course, no illusions on that score he had learned long ago that nobody did anything for nothing. But saying so was unwise. Raymond didn't seem to think he really did. "After all," he pointed the richer you are, the more eccentricity you can get away with. And," he added, "I might as well be as comfortable as possible while I suffer through this wretched historical stint." remote kind of way, he had no fondness for her—or she, he knew, for him. "Well, five years is rather a long stretch for any girl to spend in exile," Raymond explained, "even though our life spans are a bit longer than yours. Besides, you're getting too old now to be under petticoat government." He looked inquisitively at Martin. "You're not going to "No...." Martin said hesitantly. "Oh, I suppose I will miss her. But we time ?" Raymond and Martin moved into a luxurious mansion in a remote area. The site proved a well-chosen one when the Second Atomic War came, half a dozen years later, they weren't touched. Martin was never sure whether carefully chosen by Raymond and disputed by Martin, for, to the man During those early years, Martin's tutors were exchanged for the their vigorous family councils. Martin was still young enough to enjoy such occasions, finding them vastly superior to all other forms of entertainment. "This sort of problem wouldn't arise in our day, Martin," Raymond unless one specifically feels a call to some profession or other, one just—well, drifts along happily." again, Bart!" Raymond said impatiently. "Well, Martin?" their times." "Furthermore," Ottillie added, "one more artist couldn't make much difference in history. There were so many of them all through the ages." purely intellectual. The only emotion he seemed able to feel was fear—the ever-present fear that someday he would turn a corridor and sale they enjoyed was mostly to interior decorators. Museums were not interested. "Takes time," Ives tried to reassure him. "One day they'll be buying which Martin christened trips inland. Martin saw the civilized world—mostly in fragments nearly intact semi-civilized world and the uncivilized world, much the same as it had been for centuries. It was like visiting an enormous museum he couldn't seem to identify with his own time any more. The other cousins appeared to find the yacht a congenial head-quarters, largely because they could spend so much time far away from the contemporary inhabitants of the planet and relax and be themselves. So they never moved back to land. Martin spent the rest of his life on time. More cousins were in residence at once than ever before, because they came for the ocean voyage. They spent most of their time aboard ship, giving each other parties and playing an avant-garde form of shuffleboard and gambling on future sporting events. That last usually Martin didn't care much for their company and associated with them only then Ives would tell Martin of the future world he had come interbred aristocracy, to which Martin's descendants belonged by virtue "Rather feudal, isn't it?" Martin asked. for officials and things. With wars and want and suffering," he added regretfully, "same as in your day.... Like now, I mean," he corrected himself. "Maybe it continent, a hundred years or more before the date of his birth. about the entire undertaking. "He died for all of us," Raymond concluded his funeral eulogy over But Martin disagreed. The ceaseless voyaging began again. The Interregnum voyaged to every a while, Martin couldn't tell one from another. Cousin after cousin All the cousins were young, for, though they came at different times in his life, they had all started out from the same time in theirs. Only

<question>:
Raymond sees the two hundred years between his time and Martin's time _____. Martin sees the time span as _____.

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A as time to allow for people to realize that everyone is expendable.  just enough time to dull the perceptions of an entire society.
B as time to lose something, though he was unable to define it, that was important to society as a whole.  time to refine people.
C as time to refine people.  time to lose something, though he was unable to define it, that was important to society as a whole.
D as just enough time to dull the perceptions of an entire society.  time to allow for people to realize that everyone is expendable.

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C