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Something She's Not Telling Us

You Belong with Me Lyrics: You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset / She's going off about something that you said / 'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do / I'm in the room, it's a. 'Something She's Not Telling Us: A Novel' by Darcey Bell is kind of an interesting name for a novel which, as far as I can tell, has a near pathological fear of not telling anything. There are no secrets in this novel; not too much of a twist, and not much that a reader can't guess.

The candidate from Burma, Thuzar Wint Lwin, denounced the repression of the military junta.

With their outfits, some of the Miss Universe participants took the opportunity to denounce some political or social issues of their countries; this was the case of Miss Myanmar.

The candidate from Burma, Thuzar Wint Lwin, denounced the military junta’s repression that took power after a coup d’état last February 1st.

“Our people are dying and being shot by the military every day. I would like to ask everyone to talk about Burma. As Miss Universe Burma, since the coup I have talked about it as much as I can,” she said in a video sent out for the pageant.

The 22-year-old Lwin risks ending up in jail for the statements she made during the beauty pageant. In addition, on her social networks, she has expressed disagreement with the government and calls for the release of the civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

The young woman, who was placed as one of the favorites in the Top 21 of Miss Universe, and during the traditional costume parade of which she was crowned winner, also paraded with a sign that had the legend “Pray for Myanmar.”

According to the New York Times, the young woman has also participated in various protests by handing out water to protesters in Rangoon and donated her savings to the families of those who were killed.

To be part of Miss Universe, Thuzar Wint Lwin had to hide her identity as she was afraid that her name would be part of the list of most wanted persons or celebrities who have arrest warrants after participating in protests. She now fears for the safety of her family and of returning to her country.

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Contents

2 Aphantasia: A life without mental images
4 Life lessons from villains, crooks and gangsters
6 As More Tech Startups Stay Private, So Does the Money
7 Answers

Reading Passage 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

Aphantasia: A life without mental images

Close your eyes and imagine walking along a sandy beach and then gazing over the horizon as the Sun rises. How clear is the image that springs to mind?

Most people can readily conjure images inside their head – known as their mind’s eye. But this year scientists have described a condition, Aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images. Niel Kenmuir, from Lancaster, has always had a blind mind’s eye. He knew he was different even in childhood. “My stepfather, when I couldn’t sleep, told me to count sheep, and he explained what he meant, I tried to do it and I couldn’t,” he says. “I couldn’t see any sheep jumping over fences, there was nothing to count.”

Our memories are often tied up in images, think back to a wedding or first day at school. As a result, Niel admits, some aspects of his memory are “terrible”, but he is very good at remembering facts. And, like others with Aphantasia, he struggles to recognise faces. Yet he does not see Aphantasia as a disability, but simply a different way of experiencing life.

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Mind’s eye blind

Ironically, Niel now works in a bookshop, although he largely sticks to the non-fiction aisles. His condition begs the question of what is going on inside his picture-less mind. I asked him what happens when he tries to picture his fiancee. “This is the hardest thing to describe, what happens in my head when I think about things,” he says. “When I think about my fiancee there is no image, but I am definitely thinking about her, I know today she has her hair up at the back, she’s brunette. But I’m not describing an image I am looking at, I’m remembering features about her, that’s the strangest thing and maybe that is a source of some regret.”

The response from his mates is very sympathetic: “You’re weird.” But while Niel is very relaxed about his inability to picture things, it is often a cause of distress for others. One person who took part in a study into Aphantasia said he had started to feel “isolated” and “alone” after discovering that other people could see images in their heads. Being unable to reminisce about his mother years after her death led to him being “extremely distraught”.

The super-visualiser

At the other end of the spectrum is children’s book illustrator, Lauren Beard, whose work on the Fairytale Hairdresser series will be familiar to many six-year-olds. Her career relies on the vivid images that leap into her mind’s eye when she reads text from her author. When I met her in her box-room studio in Manchester, she was working on a dramatic scene in the next book. The text describes a baby perilously climbing onto a chandelier.

“Straightaway I can visualise this grand glass chandelier in some sort of French kind of ballroom, and the little baby just swinging off it and really heavy thick curtains,” she says. “I think I have a strong imagination, so I can create the world and then keep adding to it so it gets sort of bigger and bigger in my mind and the characters too they sort of evolving. I couldn’t really imagine what it’s like to not imagine, I think it must be a bit of a shame really.”

Not many people have mental imagery as vibrant as Lauren or as blank as Niel. They are the two extremes of visualisation. Adam Zeman, a professor of cognitive and behavioural neurology, wants to compare the lives and experiences of people with Aphantasia and its polar-opposite Hyperphantasia. His team, based at the University of Exeter, coined the term Aphantasia this year in a study in the journal Cortex.

Prof Zeman tells the BBC: “People who have contacted us say they are really delighted that this has been recognised and has been given a name because they have been trying to explain to people for years that there is this oddity that they find hard to convey to others.” How we imagine is clearly very subjective – one person’s vivid scene could be another’s a grainy picture. But Prof Zeman is certain that Aphantasia is real. People often report being able to dream in pictures, and there have been reported cases of people losing the ability to think in images after a brain injury.

He is adamant that Aphantasia is “not a disorder” and says it may affect up to one in 50 people. But he adds: “I think it makes quite an important difference to their experience of life because many of us spend our lives with imagery hovering somewhere in the mind’s eye which we inspect from time to time, it’s the variability of human experience.”Top of Form

Questions 1–8

Do the following statements agree with the information in the IELTS reading text?

In boxes 1- 8 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE, if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE, if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN, if there is no information on this

1 Aphantasia is a condition, which describes people, for whom it is hard to visualize mental images.

2 Niel Kenmuir was unable to count sheep in his head.

3 People with Aphantasia struggle to remember the personal traits and clothes of different people.

4 Niel regrets that he cannot portray an image of his fiancee in his mind.

5 Inability to picture things in someone’s head is often a cause of distress for a
person.

6 All people with Aphantasia start to feel ‘isolated’ or ‘alone’ at some point in their
lives.

7 Lauren Beard’s career depends on her imagination.

8 The author met Lauren Beard when she was working on a comedy scene in her next book.

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