Task 1. For questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (O). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS. People with amnesia have difficulty imagining future events with any (0) RICHNESS of detail and emotion, according to Eleanor Maguire at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London. The five amnesiacs she studied had all suffered (1) _______ that had damaged a brain region called the hippocampus. The damage left the subjects with no recollection of past events. Researchers asked the (2) _______ – and a control group without amnesia – to imagine several future scenarios, such as visiting a beach, and to describe what the experience would be like. They then carried out a lengthy (3) _______ of the subjects’ descriptions, scoring each statement based on whether it involved references to (4) _______ relationships, emotions or specific objects. All but one of the amnesiacs were worse at (5) _______ future events than those without amnesia. The way they saw future events was not as a ‘whole picture’ where all the images fitted together, but as a collection of separate ones. And in (6) _______ with their control counterparts, most amnesiacs said little about how they felt in the (7) _______ scenario. Although there is some anecdotal evidence to suggest that amnesiacs have problems picturing future events, Maguire is the first to study it (8) _______. ‘The results show that amnesia patients are really stuck in the present,’ she says. 1) RICH 2) INFECT 3) PARTICIPATE 4) ANALYSE 5) SPACE 6) VISUAL 7) COMPARE 8) FICTION 9) SYSTEM