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From the Ted Talk by Chris Bangle: Great cars are great art

Unscramble the Blue Letters


What irtseetns me in this speech is cars. aebouotmlis may be what you use, but cars are what we are, in many ways. And as long as we can solve the premolbs of automobiles, and I believe we can, with fuel cells or hgoyedrn, like BMW is really hip on, and lots of other things, then I think we can look past that and try and understand why this hook is in many of us — of this car-y-ness — and what that means, what we can learn from it. That's what I want to get to. Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an eanpxoisn of yourself: they take your thoughts, your iades, your emotions, and they multiply it — your anger, whatever. It's an avatar. It's a super-waldo that you happen to be inside of, and if you feel sexy, the car is sexy. And if you're full of road rage, you've got a "Chevy: Like a Rock," right?

Open Cloze


What _________ me in this speech is cars. ___________ may be what you use, but cars are what we are, in many ways. And as long as we can solve the ________ of automobiles, and I believe we can, with fuel cells or ________, like BMW is really hip on, and lots of other things, then I think we can look past that and try and understand why this hook is in many of us — of this car-y-ness — and what that means, what we can learn from it. That's what I want to get to. Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an _________ of yourself: they take your thoughts, your _____, your emotions, and they multiply it — your anger, whatever. It's an avatar. It's a super-waldo that you happen to be inside of, and if you feel sexy, the car is sexy. And if you're full of road rage, you've got a "Chevy: Like a Rock," right?

Solution


  1. hydrogen
  2. problems
  3. ideas
  4. expansion
  5. automobiles
  6. interests

Original Text


What interests me in this speech is cars. Automobiles may be what you use, but cars are what we are, in many ways. And as long as we can solve the problems of automobiles, and I believe we can, with fuel cells or hydrogen, like BMW is really hip on, and lots of other things, then I think we can look past that and try and understand why this hook is in many of us — of this car-y-ness — and what that means, what we can learn from it. That's what I want to get to. Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it — your anger, whatever. It's an avatar. It's a super-waldo that you happen to be inside of, and if you feel sexy, the car is sexy. And if you're full of road rage, you've got a "Chevy: Like a Rock," right?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. anger
  2. automobiles
  3. avatar
  4. bmw
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  7. cells
  8. emotions
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  16. hydrogen
  17. ideas
  18. interests
  19. learn
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  24. problems
  25. rage
  26. road
  27. rock
  28. sexy
  29. solve
  30. speech
  31. suit
  32. thoughts
  33. understand
  34. ways