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From the Ted Talk by Katie Mack: The death of the universe -- and what it means for life

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Personally, I feel lucky. Our cosmos existed for billions of yares before us and it will carry on long after we are gone. For this brief moment, we are here. We may be insignificant to the cosmos as a whole, but we have an immense pwoer to understand it, to see the beginning, to contemplate the end, to look up into the sky and see ourselves reflected in every tiny point of light. There is a kind of luxruy in the feoerdm to look beyond our own little lives and cntoeamptle the end of everything. We, fragile, doomed hanmus carry within us a sense of discovery and wonder. It will persist as long as there are thinking beings in the cosmos. And we can decide how to use it.

Open Cloze

Personally, I feel lucky. Our cosmos existed for billions of _____ before us and it will carry on long after we are gone. For this brief moment, we are here. We may be insignificant to the cosmos as a whole, but we have an immense _____ to understand it, to see the beginning, to contemplate the end, to look up into the sky and see ourselves reflected in every tiny point of light. There is a kind of ______ in the _______ to look beyond our own little lives and ___________ the end of everything. We, fragile, doomed ______ carry within us a sense of discovery and wonder. It will persist as long as there are thinking beings in the cosmos. And we can decide how to use it.

Solution

  1. humans
  2. power
  3. freedom
  4. luxury
  5. years
  6. contemplate

Original Text

Personally, I feel lucky. Our cosmos existed for billions of years before us and it will carry on long after we are gone. For this brief moment, we are here. We may be insignificant to the cosmos as a whole, but we have an immense power to understand it, to see the beginning, to contemplate the end, to look up into the sky and see ourselves reflected in every tiny point of light. There is a kind of luxury in the freedom to look beyond our own little lives and contemplate the end of everything. We, fragile, doomed humans carry within us a sense of discovery and wonder. It will persist as long as there are thinking beings in the cosmos. And we can decide how to use it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
distant galaxies 3
billion years 2

Important Words

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  29. sense
  30. sky
  31. thinking
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  33. understand
  34. years