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From the Ted Talk by Roman Krznaric: How to be a good ancestor
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The artist Katie Paterson's project, Future Library, will be a crtnuey in the making. Every year, a famous wetrir donates a book which will remain completely unread until 2114 when the whole cticolloen will be printed on paper made from a forest of trees planted for this very purpose. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault sets its vision even further, housing mlilnios of sdees in an indestructible rock bunker in the Arctic Circle that's designed to last 1,000 years. But how can we really think and plan on the scale of milinelna?
Open Cloze
The artist Katie Paterson's project, Future Library, will be a _______ in the making. Every year, a famous ______ donates a book which will remain completely unread until 2114 when the whole __________ will be printed on paper made from a forest of trees planted for this very purpose. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault sets its vision even further, housing ________ of _____ in an indestructible rock bunker in the Arctic Circle that's designed to last 1,000 years. But how can we really think and plan on the scale of _________?
Solution
- collection
- century
- writer
- seeds
- millennia
- millions
Original Text
The artist Katie Paterson's project, Future Library, will be a century in the making. Every year, a famous writer donates a book which will remain completely unread until 2114 when the whole collection will be printed on paper made from a forest of trees planted for this very purpose. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault sets its vision even further, housing millions of seeds in an indestructible rock bunker in the Arctic Circle that's designed to last 1,000 years. But how can we really think and plan on the scale of millennia?
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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