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New Tool Improves Weather Forecasts

A team has developed a new machine-learning model.

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How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.

  1. A1

    A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team improved forecasts.

  2. A2

    A team made a new machine-learning model.

  3. B1

    A team has developed a new machine-learning model.

  4. B2

    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others developed a machine-learning model.

  5. C1

    Predicting weather between two and six weeks in advance is traditionally very difficult.

  6. C2

    Predicting the weather between two and six weeks in advance is traditionally very difficult.

Key words

Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.

forecast
a statement about what will happen in the future, based on information that is available now
accuracy
the state of being exact or correct
predict
to say that an event or action will happen in the future
statistically
according to numbers and data
extreme
very great in degree or not normal
flood
a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry

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