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From the Ted Talk by Lucianne Walkowicz: Look up for a change

Unscramble the Blue Letters

The experience of looking up and knowing that the sky you're looking at surrounds every known living thing in the universe is very profound. Think about that for a moemnt. We are the only planet we know of that has life on it. The sky that you see is shared by every other liivng thing that we know of in existence. One of the things that I really like about my work is that it allows me to step back from my every day and to eineprcxee the lgaerr context, this fileneg that just as we go out and try to find planets in the universe that might be like ours, it always reminds me of how pcieorus what we have here is. Our night sky is like a natural resource, it's as though it's a park that you can visit without ever having to travel there. But like any natural resource, if we don't protect it, if we don't preserve it and treasure it, it will slip away from us and be gone.

Open Cloze

The experience of looking up and knowing that the sky you're looking at surrounds every known living thing in the universe is very profound. Think about that for a ______. We are the only planet we know of that has life on it. The sky that you see is shared by every other ______ thing that we know of in existence. One of the things that I really like about my work is that it allows me to step back from my every day and to __________ the ______ context, this _______ that just as we go out and try to find planets in the universe that might be like ours, it always reminds me of how ________ what we have here is. Our night sky is like a natural resource, it's as though it's a park that you can visit without ever having to travel there. But like any natural resource, if we don't protect it, if we don't preserve it and treasure it, it will slip away from us and be gone.

Solution

  1. feeling
  2. moment
  3. larger
  4. experience
  5. living
  6. precious

Original Text

The experience of looking up and knowing that the sky you're looking at surrounds every known living thing in the universe is very profound. Think about that for a moment. We are the only planet we know of that has life on it. The sky that you see is shared by every other living thing that we know of in existence. One of the things that I really like about my work is that it allows me to step back from my every day and to experience the larger context, this feeling that just as we go out and try to find planets in the universe that might be like ours, it always reminds me of how precious what we have here is. Our night sky is like a natural resource, it's as though it's a park that you can visit without ever having to travel there. But like any natural resource, if we don't protect it, if we don't preserve it and treasure it, it will slip away from us and be gone.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  3. existence
  4. experience
  5. feeling
  6. find
  7. knowing
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  23. shared
  24. sky
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  27. surrounds
  28. travel
  29. treasure
  30. universe
  31. visit
  32. work