다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?Although we all… | [법원직 9급 영어] 19년 1회차 기출문제 상세 페이지

다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?
Although we all possess the same physical organs for sensing the world - eyes for seeing, ears for hearing, noses for smelling, skin for feeling, and mouths for tasting - our perception of the world depends to a great extent on the language we speak, according to a famous hypothesis proposed by linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf. They hypothesized that language is like a pair of eyeglasses through which we “see” the world in a particular way. A classic example of the relationship between language and perception is the word snow. Eskimo languages have as many as 32 different words for snow. For instance, the Eskimos have different words for falling snow, snow on the ground, snow packed as hard as ice, slushy snow, wind-driven snow, and what we might call “cornmeal” snow. The ancient Aztec languages of Mexico, in contrast, used only one word to mean snow, cold, and ice. Thus, if the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is correct and we can perceive only things that we have words for, the Aztecs perceived snow, cold, and ice as       .

one and the same phenomenon

being distinct from one another

separate things with unique features

something sensed by a specific physical organ