Trinity (ISE) — Nivel C1 (ISE III)

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Little ___ that the meeting would be cancelled.

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The findings, far from ___ the theory, actually undermine it.

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He's renowned ___ his attention to detail.

Lee el texto y responde. «The case for specialisation has rarely been questioned as forcefully as it has in recent years, as evidence accumulates that many of the most consequential breakthroughs come not from narrow experts but from people who move deliberately between fields, borrowing methods and questions that specialists within a single discipline would rarely think to ask. This is not an argument for shallowness; the researchers who make this case are careful to distinguish broad, connected knowledge from mere dabbling. What seems to matter is the capacity to recognise a pattern encountered in one domain and test whether it applies, often clumsily at first, in another. Institutions built around narrow career tracks are, on this view, poorly designed for producing this kind of insight, however efficient they may be at producing conventional expertise. None of this makes specialists obsolete — depth still matters enormously once a problem has been correctly identified.»

What is the author's main point about specialisation versus broad knowledge?

Lee el texto y responde. «Nostalgia has become one of the most reliable tools in a designer's arsenal, deployed so consistently across product launches, film reboots and advertising campaigns that it can feel less like a genuine cultural mood than a formula applied whenever creative risk seems inadvisable. There is nothing new about looking backwards for inspiration, but what distinguishes the current wave is its self-awareness: brands now reference not just a decade's aesthetic but the very fact that they are doing so, layering irony over sentiment until it becomes difficult to say whether the audience is meant to feel comforted or simply amused. Critics argue this saturation risks flattening the past into interchangeable visual cues. Defenders counter that popular culture has always recycled itself. Both camps agree, at least, that the trend shows no sign of losing commercial appeal any time soon.»

What do both critics and defenders of nostalgic design agree on, according to the text?