Ejercicio 3 · Word formation
Word formation: 8 preguntas con solución explicada y descarga en PDF.
Escribe la palabra derivada que encaja en cada hueco. Se corrige solo y te explica cada fallo. Si lo prefieres en papel, lo tienes en PDF aquí arriba.
Ejercicio 3 · Word formation
Escribe la palabra derivada que encaja en cada hueco.
Reading the weather without instruments
Long before satellites, sailors and farmers made (1) about the weather by watching the sky, the sea and the behaviour of animals. Modern meteorologists tend to be (2) about these traditions, and often rightly so, but a few of them turn out to be surprisingly (3) .
The best known is the link between a red sky and the following day. Its (4) is not folklore but physics: the colour depends on dust and moisture in the air to the west, where European weather usually comes from. What made it (5) was that it worked in one hemisphere and one latitude, and travelled badly.
The (6) of these sayings, then, was never their accuracy in general, but their fit with a particular place. A farmer who had watched the same valley for forty years was making a highly (7) prediction, based on a data set nobody else had. That kind of local (8) is exactly what large models still struggle to reproduce.
- (1) PREDICTpredictions — sustantivo en plural detrás de made.
- (2) SCEPTICsceptical — adjetivo detrás de be. También vale la grafía americana.
- (3) RELYreliable — fiable.
- (4) EXPLAINexplanation — sustantivo con sujeto its.
- (5) USEuseless — el contraste con worked in one hemisphere pide un adjetivo negativo.
- (6) STRONGstrength — sustantivo de strong.
- (7) LOCALlocalised — adjetivo; también se acepta la grafía con z.
- (8) KNOWknowledge — el conocimiento local.