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From the Ted Talk by Lucianne Walkowicz: Look up for a change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


Now, like I said, I'm a big fan of __________. Obviously, I use technology every day; I'm a scientist. And there's this ________ to say that it's ________ that — you know, I'm not suggesting we're going to all go live by candlelight. Indeed, technology is allowing us to access the sky in ways that are impossible otherwise. One of the greatest examples of this is, of course, the Hubble _____ _________. The Hubble went up into space, it returns pictures daily, and it allows us to see things that we are incapable of seeing with our _____ eye, in ways that we've never been able to do before in all of human history. Other examples of this would be planetarium shows. In the past couple of years, planetarium shows have become more high-tech with these _____ ______________, and even though this isn't access directly to the sky, it's at least access to our knowledge about the sky. And indeed, we can experience the sky in a planetarium in a way that is impossible for us to do just sitting out and looking in the dark.

Solution


  1. progress
  2. space
  3. visualizations
  4. telescope
  5. tendency
  6. naked
  7. technology
  8. great

Original Text


Now, like I said, I'm a big fan of technology. Obviously, I use technology every day; I'm a scientist. And there's this tendency to say that it's progress that — you know, I'm not suggesting we're going to all go live by candlelight. Indeed, technology is allowing us to access the sky in ways that are impossible otherwise. One of the greatest examples of this is, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble went up into space, it returns pictures daily, and it allows us to see things that we are incapable of seeing with our naked eye, in ways that we've never been able to do before in all of human history. Other examples of this would be planetarium shows. In the past couple of years, planetarium shows have become more high-tech with these great visualizations, and even though this isn't access directly to the sky, it's at least access to our knowledge about the sky. And indeed, we can experience the sky in a planetarium in a way that is impossible for us to do just sitting out and looking in the dark.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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