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From the Ted Talk by Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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 surnhk by 40 prceent. But this understates the susnrseeios of this particular prboelm 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 hpnpaeed over the last 25 years. The paenmernt ice is maekrd in red. As you see, it expands to the dark blue — that's the aunnal 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.

Open Cloze

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 ______ by 40 _______. But this understates the ___________ of this particular _______ 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 ________ over the last 25 years. The _________ ice is ______ in red. As you see, it expands to the dark blue — that's the ______ 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.

Solution

  1. shrunk
  2. annual
  3. happened
  4. seriousness
  5. marked
  6. percent
  7. permanent
  8. problem

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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drinking water 3
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global warming 2
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coal man 2
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Important Words

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