다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?The seeds of wi… | [법원직 9급 영어] 21년 1회차 기출문제 상세 페이지

다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?
The seeds of willows and poplars are so minuscule that you can just make out two tiny dark dots in the fluffy flight hairs. One of these seeds weighs a mere 0.0001 grams. With such a meagre energy reserve, a seedling can grow only 1–2 millimetres before it runs out of steam and has to rely on food it makes for itself using its young leaves. But that only works in places where there’s no competition to threaten the tiny sprouts. Other plants casting shade on it would extinguish the new life immediately. And so, if a fluffy little seed package like this falls in a spruce or beech forest, the seed’s life is over before it’s even begun. That’s why willows and poplars       .
*minuscule 아주 작은

prefer settling in unoccupied territory

have been chosen as food for herbivores

have evolved to avoid human intervention

wear their dead leaves far into the winter