Ejercicio 3 · Multiple choice cloze
Multiple choice cloze: 8 preguntas con solución explicada y descarga en PDF.
Elige la palabra 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 · Multiple choice cloze
Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco.
The archive that was never meant to be read
When a company folds, its paperwork is normally destroyed, and nobody (1) it a second thought. The internal memos of a failed shipping firm in Hamburg survived only because the building changed (2) three times without anyone clearing the basement.
Historians who work on such material are (3) aware of its peculiar honesty. These were documents written by people who assumed that only their colleagues would ever see them, and who therefore had no (4) to perform. The result is a record notably (5) of the self justification that fills official correspondence.
This is also, of course, what makes the material ethically awkward. The clerk who wrote a bitter note about his manager in 1954 could not have (6) that it would be quoted in a book. Some archivists take the (7) that a document created in the expectation of privacy retains some claim to it, even decades later; others regard that position as unworkable, since it would (8) most of what we know about ordinary working life.
- Hueco 1takesgivesmakespaysgive it a second thought = pararse a pensarlo.
- Hueco 2ownerskeepershandsholderschange hands = cambiar de dueño. Expresión fija.
- Hueco 3sharplyseverelyintenselyacutelyacutely aware es la colocación habitual.
- Hueco 4incentiveencouragementmotivestimulusno incentive to perform = ningún interés en actuar de cara a la galería.
- Hueco 5clearfreeemptycleanfree of = libre de.
- Hueco 6forecastpredictedforeseenexpectedforeseen — could not have foreseen es la forma natural aquí.
- Hueco 7opinionbeliefideaviewtake the view that = sostener que.
- Hueco 8rule output offcall offtake outrule out = descartar.