full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Charles Elachi: The story behind the Mars Rovers
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Charles Elachi: Now, moving from the play stuff to the serious stuff, always people ask, why do we explore? Why are we doing all of these misnosis and why are we exploring them? Well, the way I think about it is fairly simple. Somehow, 13 billion years ago there was a Big Bang, and you've heard a little bit about, you know, the origin of the universe. But somehow what strikes everybody's imagination -- or lots of people's iainoatgmin -- somehow from that oirgnial Big Bang we have this beautiful world that we live in today.
Open Cloze
Charles Elachi: Now, moving from the play stuff to the serious stuff, always people ask, why do we explore? Why are we doing all of these ________ and why are we exploring them? Well, the way I think about it is fairly simple. Somehow, 13 billion years ago there was a Big Bang, and you've heard a little bit about, you know, the origin of the universe. But somehow what strikes everybody's imagination -- or lots of people's ___________ -- somehow from that ________ Big Bang we have this beautiful world that we live in today.
Solution
- imagination
- missions
- original
Original Text
Charles Elachi: Now, moving from the play stuff to the serious stuff, always people ask, why do we explore? Why are we doing all of these missions and why are we exploring them? Well, the way I think about it is fairly simple. Somehow, 13 billion years ago there was a Big Bang, and you've heard a little bit about, you know, the origin of the universe. But somehow what strikes everybody's imagination -- or lots of people's imagination -- somehow from that original Big Bang we have this beautiful world that we live in today.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| heat shield |
5 |
| organic material |
4 |
| grand canyon |
3 |
| million years |
3 |
| solar system |
3 |
| billion years |
2 |
| big bang |
2 |
| land mass |
2 |
| mount everest |
2 |
| geologists love |
2 |
| science community |
2 |
| short amount |
2 |
| challenging problem |
2 |
| nuclear reactor |
2 |
| real stuff |
2 |
Important Words
- bang
- beautiful
- big
- billion
- bit
- charles
- explore
- exploring
- heard
- imagination
- live
- lots
- missions
- moving
- origin
- original
- people
- play
- simple
- strikes
- stuff
- today
- universe
- world
- years