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Direction (5 - 8): Read the passage given below and answer the following questions by choosing the correct option.

"I will learn to drive a car” he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. It is the centre of Indians glass-blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, wielding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seems.

Mukesh's family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the brightness of their eyes. Mukesh's eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt.

The simile 'dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets' indicates that his dream was

A) a reality, yet seemed distant.

B) lost in the sea of dust.

C) illusory and indistinct.

D) hanging in the dusty air.