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From the Ted Talk by Vandana Singh: A sci-fi story of Earth's renewal


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She and the boy confer again. “See my clock,” says the boy, urgently to the crowd. “It has components with clearly defined functions so you can adjust and control. Treat each part sprtaaleey. You can tinker with it from the outside. The clock was my orienting mtphoear for the wlrod. But the world is not like a clock, is it?”

He sets his clock on the ground. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

“Come on,” says the girl to the watching people.

She and the boy start putting the scattered debris together, and some of the others join them. A stucurtre starts to egmere. An enormous loom of srntgae digsen. The girl teosss her insulating pot into the loom, and it tnrus into a thick sopol of multicolored yarn. There are levers for feet and hands, and with a creak and a groan, the loom begins to work. The fabric unfolds: a mesmerizing tapestry of shifting colors and patterns.

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She and the boy confer again. “See my clock,” says the boy, urgently to the crowd. “It has components with clearly defined functions so you can adjust and control. Treat each part __________. You can tinker with it from the outside. The clock was my orienting ________ for the _____. But the world is not like a clock, is it?”

He sets his clock on the ground. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

“Come on,” says the girl to the watching people.

She and the boy start putting the scattered debris together, and some of the others join them. A _________ starts to ______. An enormous loom of _______ ______. The girl ______ her insulating pot into the loom, and it _____ into a thick _____ of multicolored yarn. There are levers for feet and hands, and with a creak and a groan, the loom begins to work. The fabric unfolds: a mesmerizing tapestry of shifting colors and patterns.

Solution


  1. separately
  2. spool
  3. structure
  4. world
  5. strange
  6. metaphor
  7. design
  8. emerge
  9. turns
  10. tosses

Original Text


She and the boy confer again. “See my clock,” says the boy, urgently to the crowd. “It has components with clearly defined functions so you can adjust and control. Treat each part separately. You can tinker with it from the outside. The clock was my orienting metaphor for the world. But the world is not like a clock, is it?”

He sets his clock on the ground. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

“Come on,” says the girl to the watching people.

She and the boy start putting the scattered debris together, and some of the others join them. A structure starts to emerge. An enormous loom of strange design. The girl tosses her insulating pot into the loom, and it turns into a thick spool of multicolored yarn. There are levers for feet and hands, and with a creak and a groan, the loom begins to work. The fabric unfolds: a mesmerizing tapestry of shifting colors and patterns.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations





Important Words


  1. adjust
  2. begins
  3. boy
  4. clock
  5. colors
  6. components
  7. confer
  8. control
  9. creak
  10. crowd
  11. debris
  12. defined
  13. design
  14. emerge
  15. enormous
  16. fabric
  17. feet
  18. functions
  19. girl
  20. groan
  21. ground
  22. hands
  23. insulating
  24. join
  25. levers
  26. loom
  27. mesmerizing
  28. metaphor
  29. multicolored
  30. orienting
  31. part
  32. patterns
  33. people
  34. pot
  35. putting
  36. scattered
  37. separately
  38. sets
  39. shifting
  40. spool
  41. start
  42. starts
  43. strange
  44. structure
  45. tapestry
  46. thick
  47. tinker
  48. tosses
  49. treat
  50. turns
  51. urgently
  52. watching
  53. work
  54. world
  55. yarn