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From the Ted Talk by Helen Fisher: The brain in love

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So, I will close with this. These are my odler people. Faulkner said, "The past is not dead, it's not even past." Indeed, we carry a lot of lgaggue from our yesteryear in the haumn brain. And so, there's one thing that makes me pursue my understanding of human nature, and this reminds me of it. These are two women. Women tend to get intimacy differently than men do. weomn get intimacy from face-to-face talking. We swivel towards each other, we do what we call the "anchoring gaze" and we talk. This is intimacy to women. I think it comes from mnloilis of years of hidnlog that baby in fornt of your face, cajoling it, reprimanding it, educating it with words. Men tend to get intimacy from side-by-side doing. As soon as one guy looks up, the other guy will look away.

Open Cloze

So, I will close with this. These are my _____ people. Faulkner said, "The past is not dead, it's not even past." Indeed, we carry a lot of _______ from our yesteryear in the _____ brain. And so, there's one thing that makes me pursue my understanding of human nature, and this reminds me of it. These are two women. Women tend to get intimacy differently than men do. _____ get intimacy from face-to-face talking. We swivel towards each other, we do what we call the "anchoring gaze" and we talk. This is intimacy to women. I think it comes from ________ of years of _______ that baby in _____ of your face, cajoling it, reprimanding it, educating it with words. Men tend to get intimacy from side-by-side doing. As soon as one guy looks up, the other guy will look away.

Solution

  1. millions
  2. front
  3. women
  4. older
  5. luggage
  6. holding
  7. human

Original Text

So, I will close with this. These are my older people. Faulkner said, "The past is not dead, it's not even past." Indeed, we carry a lot of luggage from our yesteryear in the human brain. And so, there's one thing that makes me pursue my understanding of human nature, and this reminds me of it. These are two women. Women tend to get intimacy differently than men do. Women get intimacy from face-to-face talking. We swivel towards each other, we do what we call the "anchoring gaze" and we talk. This is intimacy to women. I think it comes from millions of years of holding that baby in front of your face, cajoling it, reprimanding it, educating it with words. Men tend to get intimacy from side-by-side doing. As soon as one guy looks up, the other guy will look away.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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deep attachment 2
sex drive 2
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collocation frequency
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Important Words

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