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From the Ted Talk by Charles Elachi: The story behind the Mars Rovers

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So, we used to have a celebration every year and sceelt -- there used to be competition and parades and so on. It's not very appropriate to do it now. Some people tell me to do it; I think, well, that's not really peoprr, you know, these days. So, we do something a little bit more serious. And that's what you see in the last Rose Bowl, you know, when we entered one of the floats. That's more on the play side. And on the right side, that's the Rover just before we finished its testing to take it to the Cape to launch it. These are the Rovers up here that you have on Mars now. So that kind of tlels you about, kind of, the fun things, you know, and the serious things that we try to do. But I said I'm going to show you a short clip of one of our eoelympes to kind of give you an idea about some of the tlaent that we have.

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So, we used to have a celebration every year and ______ -- there used to be competition and parades and so on. It's not very appropriate to do it now. Some people tell me to do it; I think, well, that's not really ______, you know, these days. So, we do something a little bit more serious. And that's what you see in the last Rose Bowl, you know, when we entered one of the floats. That's more on the play side. And on the right side, that's the Rover just before we finished its testing to take it to the Cape to launch it. These are the Rovers up here that you have on Mars now. So that kind of _____ you about, kind of, the fun things, you know, and the serious things that we try to do. But I said I'm going to show you a short clip of one of our _________ to kind of give you an idea about some of the ______ that we have.

Solution

  1. talent
  2. proper
  3. tells
  4. select
  5. employees

Original Text

So, we used to have a celebration every year and select -- there used to be competition and parades and so on. It's not very appropriate to do it now. Some people tell me to do it; I think, well, that's not really proper, you know, these days. So, we do something a little bit more serious. And that's what you see in the last Rose Bowl, you know, when we entered one of the floats. That's more on the play side. And on the right side, that's the Rover just before we finished its testing to take it to the Cape to launch it. These are the Rovers up here that you have on Mars now. So that kind of tells you about, kind of, the fun things, you know, and the serious things that we try to do. But I said I'm going to show you a short clip of one of our employees to kind of give you an idea about some of the talent that we have.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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