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From the Ted Talk by Yuval Noah Harari: The war in Ukraine could change everything

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

BG: So we have, among the audience listening, Rola from -- I don't know where she's from, she grew up in Lebanon -- and she said, "I lived the war, I slept on the ground, I ________ fear. All the reasons were _________ to me that the only remaining ________ came the war is absurd. We talk about strategy, power, budgets, opportunities, technologies. What about human suffering and psychological ______?" Especially, I assume what she's asking is what about, what's going to remain, in _____ of the human suffering and the psychological trauma going forward?

Solution

  1. explained
  2. trauma
  3. learning
  4. terms
  5. breathed

Original Text

BG: So we have, among the audience listening, Rola from -- I don't know where she's from, she grew up in Lebanon -- and she said, "I lived the war, I slept on the ground, I breathed fear. All the reasons were explained to me that the only remaining learning came the war is absurd. We talk about strategy, power, budgets, opportunities, technologies. What about human suffering and psychological trauma?" Especially, I assume what she's asking is what about, what's going to remain, in terms of the human suffering and the psychological trauma going forward?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. absurd
  2. assume
  3. audience
  4. breathed
  5. budgets
  6. explained
  7. fear
  8. grew
  9. ground
  10. human
  11. learning
  12. lebanon
  13. listening
  14. lived
  15. opportunities
  16. power
  17. psychological
  18. reasons
  19. remain
  20. remaining
  21. rola
  22. slept
  23. strategy
  24. suffering
  25. talk
  26. technologies
  27. terms
  28. trauma
  29. war