Ejercicio 4 · Multiple choice cloze: llegar pronto
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Multiple choice cloze: llegar pronto
Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco.
On being early
Punctuality is usually discussed as a (1) of respect, which rather (2) the question of why the same person can be scrupulous at work and hopeless with friends. The honest answer, in most cases, is that lateness is not a failure of character but a failure of (3) : people are consistently optimistic about how long a familiar journey takes, and no amount of goodwill (4) that.
Chronic earliness attracts far less comment, though it is arguably the more expensive habit. The person who arrives twenty minutes early has, over a working life, spent months in waiting rooms. That this is treated as a (5) rather than a cost says something about how we (6) reliability.
None of which (7) the fact that being late is, socially, a debt. It is simply worth being clear about what is owed: not remorse, but a better (8) of the traffic.
- Hueco 1casematterpointsubjecta matter of respect = una cuestión de respeto.
- Hueco 2asksposesbegsmakesbeg the question — deja la pregunta sin resolver.
- Hueco 3calculationjudgementmeasurementestimationestimation — fallo al estimar el tiempo.
- Hueco 4correctsmendsrepairscurescorrect — la buena voluntad no corrige ese error de cálculo.
- Hueco 5valuevirtuemeritqualitya virtue = una virtud, frente a a cost.
- Hueco 6prizeawardrewardpayreward reliability = premiar la fiabilidad.
- Hueco 7changesshiftsmovesaltersalter the fact = cambiar el hecho de que.
- Hueco 8estimateguesscountmeasurea better estimate of the traffic — cierra retomando la idea de estimar.