First Certificate

If we did not have a memory, we would not be...of our relationships with other people and would have no ...that we had had any past at all

• aware/idea

• familiar/belief

• informed/view

• aware/suggestion

• idea/acquainted

And without memory we would have no knowledge on which to ... our present and future.

• base

• depend

• do

• make

Memory ... of three processes: registration, retention and recall. Registration happens when we consciously notice something.

• contains

• involves

• includes

• consists

Retention is the next ..., when we keep something we have noticed in our minds for a certain period of time.

• action

• division

• set

• stage

Finally, recall occurs when we actively think about some of these things that are ... in our minds.

• seated

• stocked

• stored

• sited

Every day we are subjected to a vast ... of information.

• level

• amount

• extent

• number

If we remembered every ... thing we had ever seen or heard, life would be impossible.

• exact

• single

• one

• isolated

Today I am visiting a sweets factory, a building squeezed between a railway line and a canal. (a)   I watch, trucks filled with sugar arrive at the factory where this owned company has been making sweets for some 80 years

Being in a factory ... this one is exactly ... children dream of

(a)  

I am staring at a huge vats of sticky liquid ... eventually ends up as mouth-watering sweets.

(a)