다음 글의 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?Although cut… | [법원직 9급 영어] 25년 1회차 기출문제 상세 페이지

다음 글의 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?
Although cuteness can be a matter of personal preference, people tend to find young mammals cute and adorable, and it is likely that this tendency is       . Cuteness serves a purpose in species whose young cannot live on their own right away. People are drawn to babies, and it’s their body proportions (large head, large eyes, and small mouth, compared with the rest of the body) that may be an evolutionary trigger or a reminder that nurturing our young is an important adaptation for our long-term survival as a species. Babies are helpless, so our affection for them and our instinct to protect them, regardless of whether we are related to them, makes good evolutionary sense. The young of other animals that also require some level of parental care tend to have similar facial and body proportions, and these qualities make it more likely that their own parents will provide *sustenance and other resources long enough to ensure their survival.
* sustenance (생명 유지에 필요한) 영양

a unique trait owned only by a few

the result of an evolutionary development

the reason why humans love fully grown animals

a behavior exclusively shown towards human babies