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Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined expression?
Today, China is the country best positioned to send its sons and daughters into the same lunar unknown*—a goal it is aiming to reach as early as the late 2020s—and represent the entire 7.5 billion of us if it does. The Chinese edge is due in large part to the monomaniacally focused way Beijing pursues all of its grand projects, like the 2008 Olympics, the country's sprawling rail and subway grid, and the global Belt and Road Initiative. A top-down system that exerts complete control of all aspects of the economy and society can pretty much will its great works into existence. “Odds of the next voice transmission from the moon being in Mandarin are high,” said Joan Johnson -Freese, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, on CNN Thursday.
* the lunar unknown: the far side of the moon

Chances are China will be the next to land a manned spaceship on the moon.

It is highly likely that Chinese will be adopted as the standard language for all astronauts.

There is a real possibility that whoever next gets to the moon will first notify their arrival to China.

China will educate their astronauts to speak its official language perfectly on the moon.

It is possible that China will finally succeed in sending its children to the moon.

밑줄 부분과 의미가 가장 가까운 것은 “Chances are China will be the next to land a manned spaceship on the moon.”(다음에 달에 유인 우주선을 착륙시킬 나라는 중국일 가능성이 크다)이다.
“Odds of … being in Mandarin are high”는 달에서 오는 다음 음성이 중국어일 가능성이 높다는 뜻이다. 지문이 중국을 달에 사람을 보내기에 가장 유리한 나라로 소개하므로, 이는 다음 유인 달 착륙국이 중국이라는 비유적 표현이다.
“Chinese will be adopted as the standard language …”: 우주인의 표준어를 정한다는 내용이 아니다.
“whoever next gets to the moon will first notify their arrival to China”: 도착을 중국에 알린다는 말은 지문에 없다.
“China will educate their astronauts …”: 우주인의 언어 교육은 지문의 논점이 아니다.
“succeed in sending its children to the moon”: “sons and daughters”는 자국민 우주인을 뜻하며, “possible”은 “high”보다 가능성이 약하다.