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From the Ted Talk by Michael Shellenberger: How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So neuaclr seems like a pretty good option, but there's this big problem with it, which all of you, I'm sure, are arwae of, which is that plopee really don't like it. There was a study, a survey done of people around the world, not just in the United States or Europe, about a year and a half ago. And what they found is that nuclear is actually one of the least popular forms of energy. Even oil is more popular than nuclear. And while nuclear kind of edges out coal, the thing is, people don't really fear coal in the same way they fear nuclear, which really operates on our unciuooscns.

Open Cloze

So _______ seems like a pretty good option, but there's this big problem with it, which all of you, I'm sure, are _____ of, which is that ______ really don't like it. There was a study, a survey done of people around the world, not just in the United States or Europe, about a year and a half ago. And what they found is that nuclear is actually one of the least popular forms of energy. Even oil is more popular than nuclear. And while nuclear kind of edges out coal, the thing is, people don't really fear coal in the same way they fear nuclear, which really operates on our ___________.

Solution

  1. nuclear
  2. unconscious
  3. people
  4. aware

Original Text

So nuclear seems like a pretty good option, but there's this big problem with it, which all of you, I'm sure, are aware of, which is that people really don't like it. There was a study, a survey done of people around the world, not just in the United States or Europe, about a year and a half ago. And what they found is that nuclear is actually one of the least popular forms of energy. Even oil is more popular than nuclear. And while nuclear kind of edges out coal, the thing is, people don't really fear coal in the same way they fear nuclear, which really operates on our unconscious.

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