哪位好心人能帮我翻译一下这道题，看了N遍也没明白什么意思！

nanisgood

The ends of modern centuries have been greeted with both apocalyptic anxieties and utopian fantasies. It is not surprising that both reactions have consistently proven to be misplaced. After all, the precise time when a century happens to end cannot have any special significance, since the Gregorian calendar, though widely used, is only one among many that people have devised.
Which one of the following, if true, could be substituted for the reason cited above while still preserving the force of the argument?
(A) It is logically impossible for both reactions to be correct at the same time.
(B) What is a utopian fantasy to one group of people may well be, for another group of people, a realization of their worst fears.
(C) The number system based on the number ten, in the absence of which one hundred years would not have the appearance of being a significant period of time, is by no means the only one that people have created.
(D) The firm expectation that something extraordinary is about to happen can make people behave in a manner that makes it less likely that something extraordinary will happen.
(E) Since a century far exceeds the normal human life span, people do not live long enough to learn from mistakes that they themselves made one hundred years before.
选C，但我连题都看不明白！

kevin1473

现代世纪的终结有两个极端：世界末日般的焦急、乌托邦式的幻想。不奇怪，这两个反应都是错位的。毕竟，现代世纪终结的确切时间并不重要，因为广泛使用的乔治历是许多人唯一使用的年历表。

这狗东西是什么意思？我也搞不懂。

偏题怪题还是少看，别把自己给弄傻了。