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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Kelly: Technology's epic story

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The other thing that the early man invented was fire. And fire was used to clear out, and again, aecftfed the elcogoy of gasrs and whole continents, and was used in cooking. It enabled us to actually eat all kinds of things. It was, in a certain sesne, in a McLuhan sense, an external stomach, in the sense that it was cioonkg food that we could not eat otherwise. And if we didn't have fire, we actually could not live. Our bodies have adapted to these new diets. Our bodies have changed in the last 10,000 years.

Open Cloze

The other thing that the early man invented was fire. And fire was used to clear out, and again, ________ the _______ of _____ and whole continents, and was used in cooking. It enabled us to actually eat all kinds of things. It was, in a certain _____, in a McLuhan sense, an external stomach, in the sense that it was _______ food that we could not eat otherwise. And if we didn't have fire, we actually could not live. Our bodies have adapted to these new diets. Our bodies have changed in the last 10,000 years.

Solution

  1. cooking
  2. ecology
  3. grass
  4. sense
  5. affected

Original Text

The other thing that the early man invented was fire. And fire was used to clear out, and again, affected the ecology of grass and whole continents, and was used in cooking. It enabled us to actually eat all kinds of things. It was, in a certain sense, in a McLuhan sense, an external stomach, in the sense that it was cooking food that we could not eat otherwise. And if we didn't have fire, we actually could not live. Our bodies have adapted to these new diets. Our bodies have changed in the last 10,000 years.

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Important Words

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