Part 1 — Multiple Choice Cloze
The notion that language shapes thought, rather than merely reflecting it, has long (1) linguists and philosophers. The so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (2) that the structure of a language determines the way its speakers perceive reality. While the strong version of this theory has largely been (3) , a weaker form — that language (4) certain aspects of cognition — has gained considerable (5) in recent years. Research into colour terms across languages, for (6) , suggests that speakers of languages with more colour words can (7) between shades more rapidly. This finding (8) weight to the hypothesis that the words we have at our disposal shape our perceptual experience.