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From the Ted Talk by Jeanette Winterson: Is humanity smart enough to survive itself?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

We stand facing the possibility of global conflict. If that happens, it will be our Third wrold War in not much more than 100 years. If Putin's violence stops today, the problem doesn't go away. As across the glboe dictatorism threatens democracy. I wonder whether as a species we can survive any of this, even if those threats disappear. Those liivng inside the snow globe of their magical tihnknig will not be insulated against the facts of climate breakdown. And yet, still, we go on haiteng up the planet. Still we go on polluting the etarh. Still we despoil our precious natural resources.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

We stand facing the possibility of global conflict. If that happens, it will be our Third _____ War in not much more than 100 years. If Putin's violence stops today, the problem doesn't go away. As across the _____ dictatorism threatens democracy. I wonder whether as a species we can survive any of this, even if those threats disappear. Those ______ inside the snow globe of their magical ________ will not be insulated against the facts of climate breakdown. And yet, still, we go on _______ up the planet. Still we go on polluting the _____. Still we despoil our precious natural resources.

Solution


  1. earth
  2. world
  3. globe
  4. living
  5. heating
  6. thinking

Original Text


(Laughter)

We stand facing the possibility of global conflict. If that happens, it will be our Third World War in not much more than 100 years. If Putin's violence stops today, the problem doesn't go away. As across the globe dictatorism threatens democracy. I wonder whether as a species we can survive any of this, even if those threats disappear. Those living inside the snow globe of their magical thinking will not be insulated against the facts of climate breakdown. And yet, still, we go on heating up the planet. Still we go on polluting the earth. Still we despoil our precious natural resources.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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homo sapiens 3
human beings 3
success story 2
world war 2
industrial revolution 2
jack good 2
alan turing 2
computing intelligence 2
data sets 2
ada lovelace 2
mary shelley 2
body parts 2


Important Words


  1. breakdown
  2. climate
  3. conflict
  4. democracy
  5. despoil
  6. dictatorism
  7. disappear
  8. earth
  9. facing
  10. facts
  11. global
  12. globe
  13. heating
  14. insulated
  15. laughter
  16. living
  17. magical
  18. natural
  19. planet
  20. polluting
  21. possibility
  22. precious
  23. problem
  24. resources
  25. snow
  26. species
  27. stand
  28. stops
  29. survive
  30. thinking
  31. threatens
  32. threats
  33. today
  34. violence
  35. war
  36. world
  37. years