Directions for question numbers 93 to 97 Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. It is not as if human nature changes. Just as the hand that held the hand axe was the same shape as the hand that holds the mouse, so people always have and always will seek food, desire sex, care for off-spring, compete for status and avoid pain just like any other animal. Many of the idiosyncrasies of the human species are unchanging too. You can travel to the farthest corner of the earth and still expect to encounter singing, smiling, speech, sexual jealousy and a serise of humour-none of which you would find to be the same in a chimpanzee. You could travel back in time and empathise easily with the motives of Shakespeare, Homer, Confucius and the Buddha. If I could meet the man who painted exquisite images of rhinos on the wall of the Chauvet Cave in southern France 32,000 years ago, I have no doubt that I would find him fully human in every psychological way. There is a great deal of human life that does not change. Yet, to say that human life is the same as it was 32,000 years ago would be absurd. ". time my species has multiplied 100,000 percent, from perhaps three million to nearly Dil billion neople. It has given itself comforts and luxuries to a level that no other species can even imag It has colonized every habitable corner of the planet and explored almost every uninhabitao bitable one. It has altered the appearance, the genetics and the chemistry of the world and pincha perhaps 23 percent of the productivity of all the land planets for its own purposes. It has surrounded itself with peculiar, non-random arrangement of atoms called technologies, which it invents, 10 invents and discards almost continuously. This is not true for other creatures, not even bramy ones like chimpanzees, bottlenose dolphins, parrots and octopi. They may occasionally use tools, they may occasionally shift their ecological niche, but they do not 'raise their standard of living, or experience 'economic growth'. They do not encounter 'poverty' either. 96. The writer says that Shakespeare, Homer, Confucius and the Buddha ....

• A. can be met by travelling back in time
• B. are easy to understand
• C. had the same motives
• D. talked of the same human impulses