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Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. (0)In January 1952, 23-year-old medical student Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist, set (1)_______ from Buenos Aires, Argentina on a sputtering single cylinder motorbike. They wanted to discover (2)______ South America they had read about in books. By the end of the journey, they had travelled over 8,000 kilometres across such inhospitable places (3) _________ the Andes, the Atacama Desert and the Amazon Basin. The journey had a significant impact on Guevara, (4) ________, after witnessing extreme poverty and social injustice, vowed to do something about it. The (5) ________ significant moment for Guevara was his visit to a leper colony. It was here that Guevara decided (6) _________ to continue his career in institutional medicine. Instead, he (7) become a ‘doctor of the people’ – tending (8) ________ who could not afford the treatment. ​