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Reading: From Babylon to Google

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    True false not given questions and sentence completion
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  • With new technologies, forecasters can predict the weather more accurately.
    True
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  • Babylonians tried to guess the weather based on the cloud pattern only.
    False
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  • The weather forecasting truly began because of electric telegraph.
    False
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  • We can predict the chance of rain by looking at the color of the clouds.
    Not given
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  • Sending weather reports through a telegraph led to very strong wind warning service.
    True
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  • In modern-day, because of different ways of data interpreting leads to flexible forecasts.
    True
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  • The forecast serviced don’t tell the precise time of weather conditions because they are afraid that people would blame them when the prediction is wrong.
    Not given
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  • The Royal Navy officer Francis Beaufort developed the wind force scale which known as _______________.
    Beaufort scale.
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  • The first daily weather forecasts were published in ________________.
    Times
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  • The apps' approaches to dealing with all that uncertainty vary greatly, and some will be considerably more _____________ than others.
    Pessimistic
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  • As technology develops, more complex equations to provide ____________ for smaller areas.
    forecasts
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  • The sinking of the Royal Charter ship in a storm inspired Beaufort’s Royal Navy protege Robert FitzRoy to develop _______________.
    weather charts
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