Ejercicio 4 · Multiple choice cloze: las mesas redondas
Multiple choice cloze: las mesas redondas: 8 preguntas con solución explicada y descarga en PDF.
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Multiple choice cloze: las mesas redondas
Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco.
The problem with round tables
Furniture rarely (1) strong opinions, but the round table is an exception. It was chosen for the Paris peace talks precisely because it (2) no head, and it has been credited ever since with a levelling effect on the people sitting at it.
Meeting researchers are (3) about how much of this survives contact with reality. A table cannot stop the most senior person speaking first, and in practice the person who speaks first tends to (4) the direction of everything that follows.
What does seem to make a (5) is size. Beyond about eight people, a discussion (6) apart into two conversations regardless of the shape of the furniture, and the quietest participants stop contributing (7) . The advice that follows from this is unglamorous: worry less about the table and more about the guest list, and be (8) about who really needs to be there.
- Hueco 1wakesarousesraisesliftsarouse strong opinions = despertar opiniones fuertes.
- Hueco 2makestakeshasgivesit has no head = no tiene cabecera.
- Hueco 3doubtfulsuspiciousuncertainscepticalsceptical about es la colocación con about en este registro.
- Hueco 4setputlayplaceset the direction = marcar la dirección.
- Hueco 5changedifferenceeffectresultmake a difference = influir de verdad.
- Hueco 6breakssplitsfallscutsfall apart into — aquí la discusión se descompone.
- Hueco 7completelytotallyentirelyaltogetheraltogether = del todo, dejar de hacerlo por completo.
- Hueco 8ruthlesscruelsevereharshruthless about = implacable, sin sentimentalismos, con la lista de invitados.