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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Skoll: My journey into movies that matter

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I didn't think that was nleeasicsry the best way to make a living, so I decided to go on a path to become fclliainany independent, so I could write these stories as quickly as I could. I then had a bit of a wake-up call when I was 14. And my dad came home one day and announced that he had cancer, and it leokod prtety bad. And what he said was, he wasn't so much aiarfd that he might die, but that he hadn't done the things that he wanted to with his life. And knock on wood, he's still avlie today, many years later. But for a yonug man that made a real impression on me, that one never knows how much time one really has. So I set out in a hurry. I studied engineering. I started a couple of businesses that I thought would be the ticket to financial freedom.

Open Cloze


I didn't think that was ___________ the best way to make a living, so I decided to go on a path to become ___________ independent, so I could write these stories as quickly as I could. I then had a bit of a wake-up call when I was 14. And my dad came home one day and announced that he had cancer, and it ______ ______ bad. And what he said was, he wasn't so much ______ that he might die, but that he hadn't done the things that he wanted to with his life. And knock on wood, he's still _____ today, many years later. But for a _____ man that made a real impression on me, that one never knows how much time one really has. So I set out in a hurry. I studied engineering. I started a couple of businesses that I thought would be the ticket to financial freedom.

Solution


  1. looked
  2. young
  3. pretty
  4. alive
  5. financially
  6. necessarily
  7. afraid

Original Text


I didn't think that was necessarily the best way to make a living, so I decided to go on a path to become financially independent, so I could write these stories as quickly as I could. I then had a bit of a wake-up call when I was 14. And my dad came home one day and announced that he had cancer, and it looked pretty bad. And what he said was, he wasn't so much afraid that he might die, but that he hadn't done the things that he wanted to with his life. And knock on wood, he's still alive today, many years later. But for a young man that made a real impression on me, that one never knows how much time one really has. So I set out in a hurry. I studied engineering. I started a couple of businesses that I thought would be the ticket to financial freedom.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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global warming 4
media company 3
social entrepreneurship 2
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participant productions 2
hope gaps 2
light bulb 2
public interest 2
pretty good 2
good year 2
social sector 2
women act 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
started participant productions 2
pretty good year 2

Important Words


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  2. alive
  3. announced
  4. bad
  5. bit
  6. businesses
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  8. cancer
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  23. life
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  25. looked
  26. man
  27. necessarily
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  30. quickly
  31. real
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  33. started
  34. stories
  35. studied
  36. thought
  37. ticket
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  40. wanted
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  42. write
  43. years
  44. young