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From the Ted Talk by Markus Fischer: A robot that flies like a bird

Unscramble the Blue Letters


It is a dream of minnkad to fly like a bird. Birds are very agile. They fly, not with rotating components, so they fly only by flapping their wings. So we looked at the birds, and we tried to make a model that is powerful, ultralight, and it must have excellent aroneiadymc qualities that would fly by its own and only by fpnalipg its wings.

So what would be better than to use the herring gull, in its freedom, circling and soinwopg over the sea, and to use this as a role model? So we birng a team together. There are generalists and also specialists in the field of aerodynamics, in the field of building gliders. And the task was to bilud an uaglhtlrit indoor-flying model that is able to fly over your heads. So be careful later on.

Open Cloze


It is a dream of _______ to fly like a bird. Birds are very agile. They fly, not with rotating components, so they fly only by flapping their wings. So we looked at the birds, and we tried to make a model that is powerful, ultralight, and it must have excellent ___________ qualities that would fly by its own and only by ________ its wings.

So what would be better than to use the herring gull, in its freedom, circling and ________ over the sea, and to use this as a role model? So we _____ a team together. There are generalists and also specialists in the field of aerodynamics, in the field of building gliders. And the task was to _____ an __________ indoor-flying model that is able to fly over your heads. So be careful later on.

Solution


  1. flapping
  2. build
  3. mankind
  4. bring
  5. swooping
  6. ultralight
  7. aerodynamic

Original Text


It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird. Birds are very agile. They fly, not with rotating components, so they fly only by flapping their wings. So we looked at the birds, and we tried to make a model that is powerful, ultralight, and it must have excellent aerodynamic qualities that would fly by its own and only by flapping its wings.

So what would be better than to use the herring gull, in its freedom, circling and swooping over the sea, and to use this as a role model? So we bring a team together. There are generalists and also specialists in the field of aerodynamics, in the field of building gliders. And the task was to build an ultralight indoor-flying model that is able to fly over your heads. So be careful later on.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
aerodynamic efficiency 3


Important Words


  1. aerodynamic
  2. aerodynamics
  3. agile
  4. bird
  5. birds
  6. bring
  7. build
  8. building
  9. careful
  10. circling
  11. components
  12. dream
  13. excellent
  14. field
  15. flapping
  16. fly
  17. freedom
  18. generalists
  19. gliders
  20. gull
  21. heads
  22. herring
  23. looked
  24. mankind
  25. model
  26. powerful
  27. qualities
  28. role
  29. rotating
  30. sea
  31. specialists
  32. swooping
  33. task
  34. team
  35. ultralight
  36. wings