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Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Anxiety and conscience are a pair of powerful dynamos. Of course, I can only speak for myself. Between them, they have ensured that one shall work at anything worthwhile. They are blind forces which drive but do not direct. Fortunately, I have also been moved by a third motive- the wish to see and understand. Curiosity is another motive for action. It is also one of the distinctive characteristics of human nature and contrasted with the natures of nonhuman animals. All human beings have curiosity in some degree. We also have it about things which are of no practical use.

Curiosity may be focused on anything in the universe, but the spiritual reality of the phenomena should be the ultimate objective of all curiosity for it to be fruitful. Thanks to my mother my approach to this ultimate objective of all curiosity is fruitful. My approach to this ultimate objective is through the story of human affairs.

According to the author:

A)  those who have little curiosity are curious about unimportant things.

B)  apart from humans no other living beings have the gift of curiosity.

C)  the highest form of curiosity can be satisfied by study of human affairs alone.

D)  spiritual reality is the ultimate goal of humans through action.

E)  None of these