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밑줄 친 부분에 들어갈 가장 적절한 단어는?
Over the course of history it has been artists, poets and playwrights who have made the greatest progress in humanity's understanding of love. Romance has seemed as inexplicable as the beauty of a rainbow. But these days scientists are challenging that notion, and they have rather a lot to say about how and why people love each other. For a start, understanding the neurochemical pathways that regulate social attachments may help to deal with defects in people's ability to form relationships. All relationships rely on an ability to create and maintain social ties. Defects can be disabling, and become apparent as disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. Research is also shedding light on some of the more extreme forms of sexual behaviour. And some utopian groups see such work as the doorway to a future where love is guaranteed because it will be provided chemically, or even genetically engineered from conception.

According to the passage above, scientists now consider love as something ________.

enviable

edible

expiable

explicable

빈칸에는 "explicable"(설명 가능한)이 들어가야 한다.
지문은 사랑이 무지개의 아름다움처럼 "inexplicable"(설명할 수 없는)해 보였지만, 오늘날 과학자들이 "challenging that notion"(그 통념에 도전)하며 사람이 어떻게, 왜 사랑하는지 신경화학적으로 설명하고 있다고 말한다.
"enviable"(부러운)은 과학자들의 관점과 관련이 없다.
"edible"(먹을 수 있는)은 문맥과 무관하다.
"expiable"(속죄할 수 있는)도 사랑을 설명한다는 내용과 맞지 않는다.