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From the Ted Talk by Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace

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But I realized that, having been messing around with structure as an actor, that a series of sound bites in itself wasn't enough, that there needed to be a mountain to climb, there needed to be a journey that I had to take. And if I took that jorueny, no matter whether it failed or succeeded, it would be completely ienlarrvet. The point was that I would have something to hook the questions of — is humankind fnaultnmadley evil? Is the destruction of the world ilvnbietae? Should I have children? Is that a responsible thing to do? Etc., etc.

Open Cloze

But I realized that, having been messing around with structure as an actor, that a series of sound bites in itself wasn't enough, that there needed to be a mountain to climb, there needed to be a journey that I had to take. And if I took that _______, no matter whether it failed or succeeded, it would be completely __________. The point was that I would have something to hook the questions of — is humankind _____________ evil? Is the destruction of the world __________? Should I have children? Is that a responsible thing to do? Etc., etc.

Solution

  1. journey
  2. irrelevant
  3. fundamentally
  4. inevitable

Original Text

But I realized that, having been messing around with structure as an actor, that a series of sound bites in itself wasn't enough, that there needed to be a mountain to climb, there needed to be a journey that I had to take. And if I took that journey, no matter whether it failed or succeeded, it would be completely irrelevant. The point was that I would have something to hook the questions of — is humankind fundamentally evil? Is the destruction of the world inevitable? Should I have children? Is that a responsible thing to do? Etc., etc.

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