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From the Ted Talk by Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And then people started to feel that there's something new henniappg. And then Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali decided to leave. And then Egypt started, and Hosni Mubarak decided to lvaee. And now Libya as you see it. And then you have Yemen. And you have many other countries trying to see and to reedsciovr that feeling of, "How do we imagine a future which is magnificent and peaceful and tolerant?" I want to tell you something, that the Internet and connectivity has created [a] new mesidnt. But this mindset has continued to be faithful to the soil and to the land that it eegrmed from. And while this was the major difference between many initiatives before to carete change, before we tuohght, and governments told us — and even sometimes it was true — that change was imposed on us, and people rejected that, because they thought that it is alien to their culture. Always, we believed that cngahe will spring from within, that change should be a reconciliation with culture, cultural diversity, with our faith in our tradition and in our hitsory, but at the same time, open to universal values, connected with the world, tolerant to the outside. And this is the moment that is happening right now in the Arab world. This is the right moment, and this is the actual moment that we see all of these meanings meet together and then create the bgninieng of this magnificent era that will emerge from the roegin.
Open Cloze
And then people started to feel that there's something new _________. And then Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali decided to leave. And then Egypt started, and Hosni Mubarak decided to _____. And now Libya as you see it. And then you have Yemen. And you have many other countries trying to see and to __________ that feeling of, "How do we imagine a future which is magnificent and peaceful and tolerant?" I want to tell you something, that the Internet and connectivity has created [a] new _______. But this mindset has continued to be faithful to the soil and to the land that it _______ from. And while this was the major difference between many initiatives before to ______ change, before we _______, and governments told us — and even sometimes it was true — that change was imposed on us, and people rejected that, because they thought that it is alien to their culture. Always, we believed that ______ will spring from within, that change should be a reconciliation with culture, cultural diversity, with our faith in our tradition and in our _______, but at the same time, open to universal values, connected with the world, tolerant to the outside. And this is the moment that is happening right now in the Arab world. This is the right moment, and this is the actual moment that we see all of these meanings meet together and then create the _________ of this magnificent era that will emerge from the ______.
Solution
- emerged
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- mindset
- rediscover
- happening
- beginning
- history
- change
- create
- leave
Original Text
And then people started to feel that there's something new happening. And then Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali decided to leave. And then Egypt started, and Hosni Mubarak decided to leave. And now Libya as you see it. And then you have Yemen. And you have many other countries trying to see and to rediscover that feeling of, "How do we imagine a future which is magnificent and peaceful and tolerant?" I want to tell you something, that the Internet and connectivity has created [a] new mindset. But this mindset has continued to be faithful to the soil and to the land that it emerged from. And while this was the major difference between many initiatives before to create change, before we thought, and governments told us — and even sometimes it was true — that change was imposed on us, and people rejected that, because they thought that it is alien to their culture. Always, we believed that change will spring from within, that change should be a reconciliation with culture, cultural diversity, with our faith in our tradition and in our history, but at the same time, open to universal values, connected with the world, tolerant to the outside. And this is the moment that is happening right now in the Arab world. This is the right moment, and this is the actual moment that we see all of these meanings meet together and then create the beginning of this magnificent era that will emerge from the region.
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