밑줄 친 부분에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?Scientists ha… | [9급 국가직 영어] 22년 1회차 기출문제 상세 페이지

밑줄 친 부분에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?
Scientists have long known that higher air temperatures are contributing to the surface melting on Greenland’s ice sheet. But a new study has found another threat that has begun attacking the ice from below: Warm ocean water moving underneath the vast glaciers is causing them to melt even more quickly. The findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience by researchers who studied one of the many “ice tongues” of the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier in northeast Greenland. An ice tongue is a strip of ice that floats on the water without breaking off from the ice on land. The massive one these scientists studied is nearly 50 miles long. The survey revealed an underwater current more than a mile wide where warm water from the Atlantic Ocean is able to flow directly towards the glacier, bringing large amounts of heat into contact with the ice and __________ the glacier’s melting.

separating

delaying

preventing

accelerating

빈칸에는 accelerating(가속하는)이 들어가야 한다.
글은 따뜻한 해수가 빙하 아래로 흘러 "causing them to melt even more quickly"(더욱 빨리 녹게 한다)고 했고, 빈칸 문장도 대서양의 따뜻한 물이 "bringing large amounts of heat into contact with the ice"(많은 열을 얼음에 닿게 한다)고 하므로 녹는 것을 가속한다는 흐름이 맞다.
separating은 "분리하는"으로, 녹는 현상과 연결되지 않는다.
delaying은 "지연시키는"으로, 열이 공급되어 더 빨리 녹는다는 내용과 반대다.
preventing은 "막는"으로, 역시 융해를 촉진한다는 글의 요지와 반대다.