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From the Ted Talk by Chen Qiufan: A sci-fi vision of life in 2041

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It's 2041. The world is even stranger than fiction. Full of astonishing technologies and scientific advances. But there's still one thing that is very familiar. COVID is still with us. We've just fgieurd out how to live with it. You haven't been outside of your apartment for three years. The pandemic of 2021 traumatized you. You still have the nightmares about losing your grandparents and despite advances, fear of infection has kept you inside and isolated. You've just found out that the lover you met in an immersive online game has flown halfway around the wlord to meet you. But now he's quarantined in the hotsipal, stricken with a new, extremely vunlreit vniaart of the virus. It looks like he might die even before you met him. You decide you've got to vnrteue out, into the dangerous world beyond your four walls.

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It's 2041. The world is even stranger than fiction. Full of astonishing technologies and scientific advances. But there's still one thing that is very familiar. COVID is still with us. We've just _______ out how to live with it. You haven't been outside of your apartment for three years. The pandemic of 2021 traumatized you. You still have the nightmares about losing your grandparents and despite advances, fear of infection has kept you inside and isolated. You've just found out that the lover you met in an immersive online game has flown halfway around the _____ to meet you. But now he's quarantined in the ________, stricken with a new, extremely ________ _______ of the virus. It looks like he might die even before you met him. You decide you've got to _______ out, into the dangerous world beyond your four walls.

Solution


  1. figured
  2. variant
  3. world
  4. hospital
  5. virulent
  6. venture

Original Text


It's 2041. The world is even stranger than fiction. Full of astonishing technologies and scientific advances. But there's still one thing that is very familiar. COVID is still with us. We've just figured out how to live with it. You haven't been outside of your apartment for three years. The pandemic of 2021 traumatized you. You still have the nightmares about losing your grandparents and despite advances, fear of infection has kept you inside and isolated. You've just found out that the lover you met in an immersive online game has flown halfway around the world to meet you. But now he's quarantined in the hospital, stricken with a new, extremely virulent variant of the virus. It looks like he might die even before you met him. You decide you've got to venture out, into the dangerous world beyond your four walls.

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