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From the Ted Talk by Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel: Could you survive the real Twilight Zone?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
A bright spot appears in the diatnsce. You go to check it out, but something’s looming in the darkness. The light is a bioluminescent lure belonging to an anglerfish. You dart away before it quickly oneps its jaws, sucking in a hapless fish that got too close. Another narrow escape, but you’re nearly there.
Although more than 90% of deep-sea caeteurrs are bceonnuilsemit, only one group produces the color red: dragonfishes. One of them is near. Because red light is qkcuily absorbed by seatwaer, most deep-sea inhabitants can’t see it. The dragonfish emits red light from organs by its eyes, using an invisible headlight to locate unsuspecting prey that its scoops into its caevuorns jaw. You can’t see your enemy, but your silvery, mirror-like scales scatter and seotfn direct light, keeping you hdiedn.
Open Cloze
A bright spot appears in the ________. You go to check it out, but something’s looming in the darkness. The light is a bioluminescent lure belonging to an anglerfish. You dart away before it quickly _____ its jaws, sucking in a hapless fish that got too close. Another narrow escape, but you’re nearly there.
Although more than 90% of deep-sea _________ are ______________, only one group produces the color red: dragonfishes. One of them is near. Because red light is _______ absorbed by ________, most deep-sea inhabitants can’t see it. The dragonfish emits red light from organs by its eyes, using an invisible headlight to locate unsuspecting prey that its scoops into its _________ jaw. You can’t see your enemy, but your silvery, mirror-like scales scatter and ______ direct light, keeping you ______.
Solution
- hidden
- soften
- bioluminescent
- distance
- seawater
- opens
- quickly
- cavernous
- creatures
Original Text
A bright spot appears in the distance. You go to check it out, but something’s looming in the darkness. The light is a bioluminescent lure belonging to an anglerfish. You dart away before it quickly opens its jaws, sucking in a hapless fish that got too close. Another narrow escape, but you’re nearly there.
Although more than 90% of deep-sea creatures are bioluminescent, only one group produces the color red: dragonfishes. One of them is near. Because red light is quickly absorbed by seawater, most deep-sea inhabitants can’t see it. The dragonfish emits red light from organs by its eyes, using an invisible headlight to locate unsuspecting prey that its scoops into its cavernous jaw. You can’t see your enemy, but your silvery, mirror-like scales scatter and soften direct light, keeping you hidden.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
twilight zone |
2 |
red light |
2 |
carbon dioxide |
2 |
Important Words
- absorbed
- anglerfish
- appears
- belonging
- bioluminescent
- bright
- cavernous
- check
- close
- color
- creatures
- darkness
- dart
- direct
- distance
- dragonfish
- dragonfishes
- emits
- enemy
- escape
- eyes
- fish
- group
- hapless
- headlight
- hidden
- inhabitants
- invisible
- jaw
- jaws
- keeping
- light
- locate
- looming
- lure
- narrow
- opens
- organs
- prey
- produces
- quickly
- red
- scales
- scatter
- scoops
- seawater
- silvery
- soften
- spot
- sucking
- unsuspecting