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From the Ted Talk by Dan Ariely: How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised

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It would be nice to be objective in life, in many ways. The problem is that we have these color-tinted glasses as we look at all kidns of sinuaotits. For example, think about something as simple as beer. If I gave you a few beres to tatse and I asked you to rate them on intensity and bitterness, different beers would occupy different space. But what if we tried to be objective about it? In the case of beer, it would be very simple. What if we did a blind taste? Well, if we did the same thing, you tasted the same beer, now in the blind taste, things would look slightly different. Most of the beers will go into one place. You will basically not be able to dniisgistuh them, and the exception, of course, will be Guinness. (Laughter)

Open Cloze


It would be nice to be objective in life, in many ways. The problem is that we have these color-tinted glasses as we look at all _____ of __________. For example, think about something as simple as beer. If I gave you a few _____ to _____ and I asked you to rate them on intensity and bitterness, different beers would occupy different space. But what if we tried to be objective about it? In the case of beer, it would be very simple. What if we did a blind taste? Well, if we did the same thing, you tasted the same beer, now in the blind taste, things would look slightly different. Most of the beers will go into one place. You will basically not be able to ___________ them, and the exception, of course, will be Guinness. (Laughter)

Solution


  1. distinguish
  2. kinds
  3. beers
  4. taste
  5. situations

Original Text


It would be nice to be objective in life, in many ways. The problem is that we have these color-tinted glasses as we look at all kinds of situations. For example, think about something as simple as beer. If I gave you a few beers to taste and I asked you to rate them on intensity and bitterness, different beers would occupy different space. But what if we tried to be objective about it? In the case of beer, it would be very simple. What if we did a blind taste? Well, if we did the same thing, you tasted the same beer, now in the blind taste, things would look slightly different. Most of the beers will go into one place. You will basically not be able to distinguish them, and the exception, of course, will be Guinness. (Laughter)

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Important Words


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