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From the Ted Talk by Alan Jamieson: Meet the mysterious "monsters" of the deep sea

Unscramble the Blue Letters

If you sciwth your lights on, right, it looks like mud. You have a lot of places that are very flat. Lovely, luscious, golden-brown. That's a good, healthy sea floor, OK. Sometimes you see some rocks and some rocky outcrops. You see cobbles and rocks and blroedus. Sometimes it's a bit crazy. But none of these images look that weird. They look like something you would expect to see if you were scuba diving at nihgt. So the actual visual landscape of the depseet pcelas isn't that strange either, it's certainly not something you should fear.

Open Cloze

If you ______ your lights on, right, it looks like mud. You have a lot of places that are very flat. Lovely, luscious, golden-brown. That's a good, healthy sea floor, OK. Sometimes you see some rocks and some rocky outcrops. You see cobbles and rocks and ________. Sometimes it's a bit crazy. But none of these images look that weird. They look like something you would expect to see if you were scuba diving at _____. So the actual visual landscape of the _______ ______ isn't that strange either, it's certainly not something you should fear.

Solution

  1. places
  2. night
  3. deepest
  4. boulders
  5. switch

Original Text

If you switch your lights on, right, it looks like mud. You have a lot of places that are very flat. Lovely, luscious, golden-brown. That's a good, healthy sea floor, OK. Sometimes you see some rocks and some rocky outcrops. You see cobbles and rocks and boulders. Sometimes it's a bit crazy. But none of these images look that weird. They look like something you would expect to see if you were scuba diving at night. So the actual visual landscape of the deepest places isn't that strange either, it's certainly not something you should fear.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
deep sea 11
lovely organic 3
deepest fish 3
deep ocean 2
bit misleading 2
organic matter 2
big chunk 2
square centimeter 2
deepest points 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
lovely organic matter 2

Important Words

  1. actual
  2. bit
  3. boulders
  4. cobbles
  5. crazy
  6. deepest
  7. diving
  8. expect
  9. fear
  10. flat
  11. floor
  12. good
  13. healthy
  14. images
  15. landscape
  16. lights
  17. lot
  18. lovely
  19. luscious
  20. mud
  21. night
  22. outcrops
  23. places
  24. rocks
  25. rocky
  26. scuba
  27. sea
  28. strange
  29. switch
  30. visual
  31. weird