单项选择题

Considering the________of available options for investing one’’s hard-earned retirement funds, as evidenced by a plethora of daytime television advertisements aimed at appealing to the incapacitated senior, you may well find it difficult to avoid feeling________.

A.diversity … ingratiated
B.dearth … belligerent
C.gamut … overwhelmed
D.appeal … mortified
E.periodicity … exhausted