Tasting Colours

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

indelibly

inexorably

indefinitely

inextricably

launch

trigger

fire

release

refused

denied

declined

dismissed

assured

confirmed

ensured

insured

alter

convert

modify

vary

resistant

opposed

reluctant

unwilling

positively

certainly

sure

decidedly

separate

part

divide

split

For most of us, the senses (0) ___ independently of one another. For people with synaesthesia, however, they are (1) ___ linked. Hearing a particular note may (2) ___ a flash of colour, while certain words can produce a distinct taste in the mouth. Others perceive the days of the week as having fixed positions in the space around them. The condition was long (3) ___ as fanciful, and those who described it risked being accused of exaggeration or worse. Only in recent decades have brain scans (4) ___ that synaesthetes genuinely experience what they report. Estimates of how common it is (5) ___ widely, but some researchers believe as many as one person in twenty-five may have some form of it. Strikingly, the associations are remarkably (6) ___ to change: someone who sees the number seven as green in childhood will almost (7) ___ still see it as green decades later. Far from regarding it as a disability, most synaesthetes say they would not (8) ___ with their unusual perception for anything.

Tasting Colours

conduct

handle

operate

execute

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