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Where does the given sentence best fit in the passage?
They had attained academic, domestic, and social success—and they were always ready to capitalize on new opportunities that arose.

In 1989, a developmental psychologist named Emmy Werner published the results of a thirty-two-year longitudinal project. She had followed a group of 698 children, in Kauai, Hawaii, from before birth through their third decade of life. (A) Along the way, she’d monitored them for any exposure to stress: maternal stress in uteri, poverty, problems in the family, and so on. (B) Two-thirds of the children came from backgrounds that were, essentially, stable, successful, and happy; the other third qualified as “at risk.” (C) She soon discovered that not all of the at-risk children reacted to stress in the same way. Two-thirds of them developed serious learning or behavior problems by the age of ten, or had delinquency records, mental health problems, or teen-age pregnancies by the age of eighteen. (D) But the remaining third developed into competent, confident, and caring young adults. (E)

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

주어진 문장은 지문의 마지막 자리인 (E)에 들어간다.
“They”는 바로 앞 “the remaining third”(나머지 3분의 1)이며, “competent, confident, and caring young adults”로 성장한 그들의 성공을 “academic, domestic, and social success”로 구체화한다.
(A): 아직 아이들을 추적했다는 설명뿐이어서 성공을 이룬 “They”가 정해지지 않는다.
(B): 스트레스 관찰 내용 뒤라 성공한 집단이 아직 없다.
(C): 위험군의 서로 다른 반응이 나오기 전이라 맥락이 맞지 않는다.
(D): 앞 문장이 비행·학습 문제를 겪은 3분의 2를 다루므로 “They”의 성공과 모순된다.