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Cloze passage (PART B): Read the following passage and decide which choice best fits the space.

Scientists and philosophers have been grappling with the relationship between language and thought for centuries. There have always been (11) ---------- that our picture of the Universe depends on our native tongue. Since the 1960s, however, with the ascent of thinkers like Noam Chomsky, and a host of cognitive scientists, the consensus has been that linguistic differences don't really matter, that language is a universal human trait, and that our ability to talk to one another owes more to our shared genetics than to our varying cultures. But now the pendulum is beginning to swing the other way as psychologists re-examine the question.

Question 11: Which choice best fits blank (11)?