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From the Ted Talk by Joshua Prince-Ramus: Behind the design of Seattle's library

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


So, you see the five platforms, those are the boxes. within each one, a very discrete thing is _________. The area in between is sort of an urban continuum, these things that we can't _______ their evolution to the same ______. To give you some sense of the power of this idea, the biggest block is what we call the book spiral. It's _________ built in a very inexpensive way — it is a parking garage for books. It just so happens to be on the 6th through 10th floors of the ________, but that is not ___________ an expensive approach. And it allows us to organize the entire _____ Decimal System on one continuous run; no matter how it grows or contracts within the building, it will always have its clarity to end the sort of trail of tears that we've all experienced in public libraries.

Solution


  1. literally
  2. happening
  3. building
  4. dewey
  5. necessarily
  6. degree
  7. predict

Original Text


So, you see the five platforms, those are the boxes. within each one, a very discrete thing is happening. The area in between is sort of an urban continuum, these things that we can't predict their evolution to the same degree. To give you some sense of the power of this idea, the biggest block is what we call the book spiral. It's literally built in a very inexpensive way — it is a parking garage for books. It just so happens to be on the 6th through 10th floors of the building, but that is not necessarily an expensive approach. And it allows us to organize the entire Dewey Decimal System on one continuous run; no matter how it grows or contracts within the building, it will always have its clarity to end the sort of trail of tears that we've all experienced in public libraries.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
contemporary art 4
art museum 4
high modernist 3
reading room 3
dallas theater 3
artistic director 3
social roles 2
book spiral 2
public libraries 2
unusual client 2
theater company 2
light enclosure 2
million square 2
square feet 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
contemporary art museum 4
million square feet 2

Important Words


  1. approach
  2. area
  3. biggest
  4. block
  5. book
  6. books
  7. boxes
  8. building
  9. built
  10. call
  11. clarity
  12. continuous
  13. continuum
  14. contracts
  15. decimal
  16. degree
  17. dewey
  18. discrete
  19. entire
  20. evolution
  21. expensive
  22. experienced
  23. floors
  24. garage
  25. give
  26. grows
  27. happening
  28. idea
  29. inexpensive
  30. libraries
  31. literally
  32. matter
  33. necessarily
  34. organize
  35. parking
  36. platforms
  37. power
  38. predict
  39. public
  40. sense
  41. sort
  42. spiral
  43. system
  44. tears
  45. trail
  46. urban