Read this passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow, by picking the right option lettered A - D which best answer the questions.
One day, Alan a friend of mine, who likes country life, was fishing in a river, when he caught a trout, he tried to push the fish in but it slipped off the hook, flew over his head and landed in a field behind him.
Alan put down his rod, went through the gate and started searching for the trout. Some people, obviously from there were having a picnic in the fielD. One of the men shouted 'what on earth are you doing? Thinking that it was a question because they sould see how he was dressed, Alan replicd "fishing". Don't be silly; the fish don't live in lands. He turned to his friends, laughing, thinking that he had made a good joke, 'Oh but they do said Alan. They slip out of the river to look for flies and I catch them with my hands. At the moment he found his trout in the grass. He picked it up and showed it to the picnickers. He put it in a basket and bent down as if he was hunting for another. The picnickers no longer laugh, spent the rest of the day searching the fields.
The picnickers were ____________
A. farmers B. from the nearby village C. tourists D. people from the city