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From the Ted Talk by Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice

Unscramble the Blue Letters

CE: All of this has happened in the blink of an eye. It is uimbngniaale what will happen next. It makes me incredibly fortunate to live at this memont in history. Indeed, I am lucky to live in history at all, because without intelligence and mreomy there is no history. For billions of years, the universe evolved completely without notice. Now we live in the age of the Internet, which seems to be ctneairg a form of global consciousness. And because of it, I can cnimotmcaue as well as I ever could. We are born into a box of time and space. We use wdors and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

Open Cloze

CE: All of this has happened in the blink of an eye. It is ____________ what will happen next. It makes me incredibly fortunate to live at this ______ in history. Indeed, I am lucky to live in history at all, because without intelligence and ______ there is no history. For billions of years, the universe evolved completely without notice. Now we live in the age of the Internet, which seems to be ________ a form of global consciousness. And because of it, I can ___________ as well as I ever could. We are born into a box of time and space. We use _____ and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

Solution

  1. unimaginable
  2. moment
  3. creating
  4. communicate
  5. words
  6. memory

Original Text

CE: All of this has happened in the blink of an eye. It is unimaginable what will happen next. It makes me incredibly fortunate to live at this moment in history. Indeed, I am lucky to live in history at all, because without intelligence and memory there is no history. For billions of years, the universe evolved completely without notice. Now we live in the age of the Internet, which seems to be creating a form of global consciousness. And because of it, I can communicate as well as I ever could. We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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computer voice 4
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carotid artery 3
tv show 2
salman khan 2
human nature 2
people talk 2
talk loudly 2

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Important Words

  1. age
  2. billions
  3. blink
  4. born
  5. box
  6. break
  7. communicate
  8. communication
  9. completely
  10. consciousness
  11. creating
  12. evolved
  13. eye
  14. form
  15. fortunate
  16. global
  17. happen
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  19. history
  20. incredibly
  21. intelligence
  22. internet
  23. live
  24. lucky
  25. memory
  26. moment
  27. notice
  28. reach
  29. space
  30. time
  31. unimaginable
  32. universe
  33. words
  34. years