سوال ۱۲ کنکور ارشد علوم کامپیوتر ۱۴۰۱

PART B: Cloze Test — Read the passage and choose the option that best fits the blank.

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, (12) ---------- the ascent of thinkers like Noam Chomsky, and a host of cognitive scientists, (13) ---------- that linguistic differences don't really matter, (14) ---------- language is a universal human trait, and that our ability to talk to one another owes more to our shared genetics (15) ----------. But now the pendulum is beginning to swing the other way as psychologists re-examine the question.

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