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밑줄 친 부분에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것을 고르시오.
London taxi drivers have to undertake years of intense training known as "the knowledge" to gain their operating license, including learning the layout of over twenty-five thousand of the city's streets. A researcher and her team investigated the taxi drivers and the ordinary people. The two groups were asked to watch videos of routes unfamiliar to them through a town in Ireland. They were then asked to take a test about the video that included sketching out routes, identifying landmarks, and estimating distances between places. Both groups did well on much of the test, but the taxi drivers did significantly better on identifying new routes. This result suggests that the taxi drivers' mastery can be __________ to new and unknown areas. Their years of training and learning through deliberate practice prepare them to take on similar challenges even in places they do not know well or at all.

confined

devoted

generalized

contributed

빈칸에는 "generalized"(일반화된, 확장 적용된)가 가장 적절하다.
택시 기사들은 처음 보는 아일랜드 도시의 경로 파악에서도 더 뛰어났고, 마지막 문장은 그들이 "places they do not know well or at all"(잘 모르거나 전혀 모르는 곳)에서도 비슷한 과제를 해낸다고 하므로, 숙련이 새로운 지역으로 확장 적용될 수 있다는 의미가 와야 한다.
"confined"(국한된)는 새로운 지역으로 넓어진다는 결과와 반대이다.
"devoted"(헌신한)는 "to new and unknown areas"와 의미상 맞지 않는다.
"contributed"(기여한)는 숙련이 다른 곳에 적용된다는 의미를 나타내지 못한다.