Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

The correct reading is that the first statement holds true while the second does not.

Statement 1 is true because communication, community and communion all descend from the Latin root communis and communicare, meaning to share, so they are genuinely linked in origin.

This shared etymology reflects the deep bond between communicating and holding something in common with others.

Statement 2 is false because as human society developed, communication systems grew more complex and elaborate, not more simple.

The movement of history runs from speech to writing to print to electronic and digital media, a rise in complexity.

Since the first claim stands and the second is reversed, only the first can be accepted as true.