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From the Ted Talk by Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Last year I seohwd these two sedlis so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shrunk by 40 percent. But this understates the seriousness of this particular problem because it doesn't show the thickness of the ice. The arctic ice cap is, in a sense, the beating heart of the gaobll climate system. It expands in winter and contracts in summer. The next sdile I show you will be a raipd fast-forward of what's haeepnpd over the last 25 years. The permanent ice is marked in red. As you see, it expands to the dark blue — that's the annual ice in wietnr, and it contracts in summer. The so-called peenrmnat ice, five years old or oeldr, you can see is almost like blood, spilling out of the body here. In 25 years it's gone from this, to this.
Open Cloze
Last year I ______ these two ______ so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shrunk by 40 percent. But this understates the seriousness of this particular problem because it doesn't show the thickness of the ice. The arctic ice cap is, in a sense, the beating heart of the ______ climate system. It expands in winter and contracts in summer. The next _____ I show you will be a _____ fast-forward of what's ________ over the last 25 years. The permanent ice is marked in red. As you see, it expands to the dark blue — that's the annual ice in ______, and it contracts in summer. The so-called _________ ice, five years old or _____, you can see is almost like blood, spilling out of the body here. In 25 years it's gone from this, to this.
Solution
- slides
- winter
- showed
- slide
- happened
- older
- permanent
- rapid
- global
Original Text
Last year I showed these two slides so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shrunk by 40 percent. But this understates the seriousness of this particular problem because it doesn't show the thickness of the ice. The arctic ice cap is, in a sense, the beating heart of the global climate system. It expands in winter and contracts in summer. The next slide I show you will be a rapid fast-forward of what's happened over the last 25 years. The permanent ice is marked in red. As you see, it expands to the dark blue — that's the annual ice in winter, and it contracts in summer. The so-called permanent ice, five years old or older, you can see is almost like blood, spilling out of the body here. In 25 years it's gone from this, to this.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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