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From the Ted Talk by Renzo Piano: The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings

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Look at this. Here we are in London, at the top of the Shard of Glass. This is a building we completed a few years ago. Those people are well-trained workers, and they are assembling the top piece of the toewr. Well, they look like rock climbers. They are. I mean, they are defying the force of gravity, like bdniulig does, by the way. We got 30 of those people — actually, on that site, we got more than 1,400 people, coming from 60 different ntalientiioas. You know, this is a maricle. It's a miracle. To put together 1,400 people, coming from such different places, is a miracle. Sites are miracles. This is another one.

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Look at this. Here we are in London, at the top of the Shard of Glass. This is a building we completed a few years ago. Those people are well-trained workers, and they are assembling the top piece of the _____. Well, they look like rock climbers. They are. I mean, they are defying the force of gravity, like ________ does, by the way. We got 30 of those people — actually, on that site, we got more than 1,400 people, coming from 60 different _____________. You know, this is a _______. It's a miracle. To put together 1,400 people, coming from such different places, is a miracle. Sites are miracles. This is another one.

Solution

  1. miracle
  2. nationalities
  3. building
  4. tower

Original Text

Look at this. Here we are in London, at the top of the Shard of Glass. This is a building we completed a few years ago. Those people are well-trained workers, and they are assembling the top piece of the tower. Well, they look like rock climbers. They are. I mean, they are defying the force of gravity, like building does, by the way. We got 30 of those people — actually, on that site, we got more than 1,400 people, coming from 60 different nationalities. You know, this is a miracle. It's a miracle. To put together 1,400 people, coming from such different places, is a miracle. Sites are miracles. This is another one.

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