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