2 Add negative prefixes to the words in bold, using a dictionary if necessary. The sign had been ……….translated, so no one could understand what it meant.
I …………understood one of the exam questions and wrote about the wrong subject.
The text was quite …………..ambiguous, so there was only one way of interpreting it.
Some of the totals had evidently been …………..calculated, so the results were unreliable.
The essay was quite ………..coherent, so it was almost impossible to follow the argument.
Sandra is good at French but …………….pronounces a lot of words.
3 Use the words from the box in an appropriate form to complete the text.
'AND IT'S A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL' The American songwriter Bob Dylan is often considered to be as much a poet as a musician. He ………………….. his political ideas through folk songs in his early period. His melodies were often simple but his words …………………… complex messages, often with subtle ……………… .In one of his songs, he speaks of a 'hard rain' which will fall after a nuclear war. On one level the words ……………… real, radioactive rain, but the ………………. of the words are many: life will be hard, perhaps impossible. Perhaps the consequences will fall hard on the politicians who started the war too. There are many things we can …………….. from these words. The song is part of the political ……………. of the Cold War of the 1960s. It ………………… an atmosphere of fear and hopelessness. Seen from the ……………………. of the post-Cold-War era, it may seem difficult to ………………… such fear, but at the time, that fear was very real.
