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