The best word to replace the term “bear” in the text is

Questions 32 and 33 refer to the text below:

The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the creativity of language, that is, the speaker’s ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are familiar. The fundamental importance of this creative aspect of language has been recognized since the seventeenth century.