Fed’s Jefferson says inflation is U.S. central bank’s most worrisome problem



Available at: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/feds-jefferson-first-remarks-calls-inflation-most-concerning-problem-2022-10-04/. Retrieved on: Oct 4, 2022. Adapted.


In the section of last paragraph “it remains uncertain how that will work, and in the meantime inflation remains elevated”, the expression in the meantime is synonymous with

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   Anyone who has interacted with superbot ChatGPT or image generator DALL-E might be wondering what the future of artificial intelligence (AI) holds for humanity.

    ChatGPT is an AI program that generates text in a very human-like manner when asked questions. Just ask DALL-E or similar programs to create a picture of a French bulldog driving a pink convertible and voila: you’ll see several versions in seconds.

    Science fiction in the mid-20th century created good-natured AI such as the computer on Star Trek helping the Enterprise crew, as well as its evil twin set on destroying its creators like HAL in Arthur C. Clarke’s famous book (or Stanley Kubri... Ver mais

Instruction: answer question based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.


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In which of the sentences below the word “rather” has the same meaning as the highlighted one in line 08?

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Choose the option that presents an appropriate synonym for “current” in text CB1A2-II. 

Choose the option that presents an appropriate synonym for “raised” in text CB1A2-II. 

I have always quite irrationally prided myself on my good health, for I have only occasionally had to take a day off work when I have had a cold.      So I was quite offended by my doctor who, when we ran into each other in the street one day, took one look at me and told me that I was definitely overweight and that if I did not make an effort to lose some weight, I could expect to have a heart attack before very long. He added that, like many middle-aged men, I led a completely sedentary life: I sat behind my office desk during the day and relaxed in my armchair in the evening with my eyes firmly fixed on the television set.      It was true that I had been getting fatter, but this had not worried me much, for I simply attributed it to the fact that I was getting older.      My doctor a... Ver mais

Phishing
Imagine that you get an email one morning. It appears to be from your bank. The email warns that someone broke into your account. It says that you need to sign in to check some things. You click the link in the email. It takes you to a site that looks very much like your bank’s. You enter your username and password. You submit the form. You’ve just been phished!
Phishing is a type of attack that happens over the Internet. Users receive an email or text message that seems like it came from a trusted source. These users are being deceived. They are interacting with dangerous hackers. The attackers copy trusted companies. They send users to web pages that look like the ones we use everyday. When users login or provide sensitive information, the attackers steal this data.
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   Early electronic computers such as Colossus made use of punched tape, a long strip of paper on which data was represented by a series of holes, a technology now obsolete. Electronic data storage, which is used in modern computers, dates from World War II, when a form of delay-line memory was developed to remove the clutter from radar signals, the first practical application of which was the mercury delay line. The first random-access digital storage device was the Williams tube, based on a standard cathode ray tube, but the information stored in it was volatile in that it had to be continuously refreshed, and thus was lost once power was removed. The earliest form of nonvolatile computer storage was the magnetic drum, invented in 1932 and used in the Ferranti Mark 1, the wor... Ver mais

Considering the text above, judge the following item. 


The phrase “better suited to” (second paragraph) means more able to meet the requirements of.  

Considering the text above, judge the following item. 

The verb “removed” (third sentence) can be adequately replaced with taken out.