CL GRANADA, S. L.
C/ Puentezuelas, nº 32, 1ª Planta - 18002 Granada
Teléf.: 958 53 52 53 – 958 52 12 91
Fax: 958 25 15 46
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.clgranada.com
FCE WORD FORMATION - COMPUTERS THAT PLAY GAMES
For Questions 56-65, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to
form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (1).
COMPUTERS THAT PLAY GAMES
Computers have had the 1._ability_ to play chess for many years now, and their
ABLE
PERFORM
2.________ in games against the best players in the world has shown
IMPROVE
steady 3.________ . However, it will be years before the designers of computer games
machines can beat their 4.________ challenge yet – the ancient board game called Go.
The playing area is 5.________ larger than in chess and there are far more pieces, so that
CONSIDERABLE
COMBINE
END
the 6.________ of moves is almost 7.________ . The game involves planning so
many moves ahead that even the 8.________ calculations of the fastest modern
IMPRESS
SUFFICIENT
computers are 9.________ to deal with the problems of the game.
In a recent 10.________ for computer Gomachines, the best machine beat all its
computer rivals, but lost 11.________ to three young schoolchildren, so there
COMPETE
HEAVY
is obviously still a lot of work to do!
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CL GRANADA, S. L.
C/ Puentezuelas, nº 32, 1ª Planta - 18002 Granada
Teléf.: 958 53 52 53 – 958 52 12 91
Fax: 958 25 15 46
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.clgranada.com
ANSWERS
COMPUTERS THAT PLAY GAMES
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5.
6.
7.
8.
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10.
Performance
Improvement
Biggest
Considerably
Combination
Endless
Impressive
Insufficient
Competition
heavily
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