밑줄 친 (A), (B), (C)에 들어갈 표현으로 가장 적절한 것은?… | [국회직 9급 영어] 22년 1회차 기출문제 상세 페이지

밑줄 친 (A), (B), (C)에 들어갈 표현으로 가장 적절한 것은?
Why did communicative sound take so long to evolve? Bacterial and single-celled life existed for three billion years with no known sonic signals. Although all these cells could sense water motions and vibrations, none reached out to  (A)  with sound. The first three hundred million years of animal evolution, too, seem to have lacked any communicative signals. No known fossil from this time has a rasp or other sound-making structure. The expert paleontologists  (B)  advice I sought all said that they knew of no physical evidence of sound-making structures from animals until the first cricket-and cicada-like insects evolved. Of course, the fossil record is incomplete and some sound-making structures, such as the swim bladders of fish, leave  (C)  or no trace in rock, and so we hear imperfectly across these great stretches of time.

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빈칸에는 “others / whose / little”이 알맞다.
(A)는 전치사 to의 목적어이므로 대명사 others가 필요하다. (B)는 뒤의 명사 advice를 수식하며 paleontologists를 받는 소유격 관계대명사 whose, (C)는 “or no trace”와 호응해 ‘거의 없는’을 뜻하는 little이다.
“other / whose / a little”은 other가 단독으로 명사 자리에 올 수 없고 a little은 ‘약간 있는’이라 틀렸다.
“other / what / little”은 other가 명사 자리에 올 수 없고 what은 선행사를 취할 수 없어 틀렸다.
“others / whose / a little”은 a little이 “or no trace”와 의미상 호응하지 않는다.
“others / what / a little”은 what이 선행사 뒤에 올 수 없고 a little도 호응하지 않는다.