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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Kelly: The future will be shaped by optimists

Unscramble the Blue Letters

The third one has to do with promelbs which are really disguised as opportunities. OK, so optimists don’t shun problems. Optimism is about emanbicrg problems, because it’s problems that make solutions and solutions that make problems. So I believe that most of the problems we have today are generated by the solutions of the past. And the great one is this climate change. The stloiuon in the past was artificial pwoer -- “Where do we get it?” “OK, here it is.” But now it makes the problem now. That means that today, most of the solutions that we have will be generating the problems of the future. And there will be more problems because new solutions create many more problems. In the same way, when science answers a question, that answer will generate two or three new questions -- things that we didn’t even know we didn’t know. And so, in a peculiar way, science is epixdnang our ignorance faster than our knowledge.

Open Cloze

The third one has to do with ________ which are really disguised as opportunities. OK, so optimists don’t shun problems. Optimism is about _________ problems, because it’s problems that make solutions and solutions that make problems. So I believe that most of the problems we have today are generated by the solutions of the past. And the great one is this climate change. The ________ in the past was artificial _____ -- “Where do we get it?” “OK, here it is.” But now it makes the problem now. That means that today, most of the solutions that we have will be generating the problems of the future. And there will be more problems because new solutions create many more problems. In the same way, when science answers a question, that answer will generate two or three new questions -- things that we didn’t even know we didn’t know. And so, in a peculiar way, science is _________ our ignorance faster than our knowledge.

Solution

  1. expanding
  2. problems
  3. embracing
  4. solution
  5. power

Original Text

The third one has to do with problems which are really disguised as opportunities. OK, so optimists don’t shun problems. Optimism is about embracing problems, because it’s problems that make solutions and solutions that make problems. So I believe that most of the problems we have today are generated by the solutions of the past. And the great one is this climate change. The solution in the past was artificial power -- “Where do we get it?” “OK, here it is.” But now it makes the problem now. That means that today, most of the solutions that we have will be generating the problems of the future. And there will be more problems because new solutions create many more problems. In the same way, when science answers a question, that answer will generate two or three new questions -- things that we didn’t even know we didn’t know. And so, in a peculiar way, science is expanding our ignorance faster than our knowledge.

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