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From the Ted Talk by Ashton Cofer: A plan to recycle the unrecyclable

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So we started out by doing a variety of heating tetss, and unfortunately, we had many failures. Literally, nothing worked. Besides my dad's glirl catching on fire, most of our samples vaporized into nothing, or exploded inside expensive furnaces, lvienag a hlobrriy sticky mess. In fact, we were so saddened by our freaiuls that we almost gave up.

So why did we keep trying when all the adults said it was impossible? Well, maybe it's because we're kids. We don't know any better. But the truth is, we kept trying because we thought it was still possible. We knew that if we were successful, we would be helping the environment and making the world a better place. So we kept trying and failing and trying and fainlig. We were so ready to give up.

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So we started out by doing a variety of heating _____, and unfortunately, we had many failures. Literally, nothing worked. Besides my dad's _____ catching on fire, most of our samples vaporized into nothing, or exploded inside expensive furnaces, _______ a ________ sticky mess. In fact, we were so saddened by our ________ that we almost gave up.

So why did we keep trying when all the adults said it was impossible? Well, maybe it's because we're kids. We don't know any better. But the truth is, we kept trying because we thought it was still possible. We knew that if we were successful, we would be helping the environment and making the world a better place. So we kept trying and failing and trying and _______. We were so ready to give up.

Solution


  1. failures
  2. horribly
  3. grill
  4. failing
  5. leaving
  6. tests

Original Text


So we started out by doing a variety of heating tests, and unfortunately, we had many failures. Literally, nothing worked. Besides my dad's grill catching on fire, most of our samples vaporized into nothing, or exploded inside expensive furnaces, leaving a horribly sticky mess. In fact, we were so saddened by our failures that we almost gave up.

So why did we keep trying when all the adults said it was impossible? Well, maybe it's because we're kids. We don't know any better. But the truth is, we kept trying because we thought it was still possible. We knew that if we were successful, we would be helping the environment and making the world a better place. So we kept trying and failing and trying and failing. We were so ready to give up.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. adults
  2. catching
  3. environment
  4. expensive
  5. exploded
  6. fact
  7. failing
  8. failures
  9. fire
  10. furnaces
  11. gave
  12. give
  13. grill
  14. heating
  15. helping
  16. horribly
  17. impossible
  18. kids
  19. knew
  20. leaving
  21. literally
  22. making
  23. mess
  24. place
  25. ready
  26. saddened
  27. samples
  28. started
  29. sticky
  30. successful
  31. tests
  32. thought
  33. truth
  34. vaporized
  35. variety
  36. worked
  37. world