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From the Ted Talk by Karen Armstrong: My wish The Charter for Compassion

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Because it seems to me that with — our current situation is so serious at the mmneot that any ideology that doesn't promote a sense of global understanding and global appreciation of each other is failing the test of the time. And religion, with its wide following ... Here in the United States, people may be being reglouiis in a different way, as a report has just shown — but they still want to be religious. It's only Western Europe that has retained its secularism, which is now beginning to look rather endearingly old-fashioned.

But people want to be religious, and religion should be made to be a fcroe for harmony in the world, which it can and should be — because of the gdoeln Rule. "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you": an ehots that should now be applied globally. We should not treat other nations as we would not wish to be treated ourselves.

Open Cloze


Because it seems to me that with — our current situation is so serious at the ______ that any ideology that doesn't promote a sense of global understanding and global appreciation of each other is failing the test of the time. And religion, with its wide following ... Here in the United States, people may be being _________ in a different way, as a report has just shown — but they still want to be religious. It's only Western Europe that has retained its secularism, which is now beginning to look rather endearingly old-fashioned.

But people want to be religious, and religion should be made to be a _____ for harmony in the world, which it can and should be — because of the ______ Rule. "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you": an _____ that should now be applied globally. We should not treat other nations as we would not wish to be treated ourselves.

Solution


  1. ethos
  2. force
  3. golden
  4. moment
  5. religious

Original Text


Because it seems to me that with — our current situation is so serious at the moment that any ideology that doesn't promote a sense of global understanding and global appreciation of each other is failing the test of the time. And religion, with its wide following ... Here in the United States, people may be being religious in a different way, as a report has just shown — but they still want to be religious. It's only Western Europe that has retained its secularism, which is now beginning to look rather endearingly old-fashioned.

But people want to be religious, and religion should be made to be a force for harmony in the world, which it can and should be — because of the Golden Rule. "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you": an ethos that should now be applied globally. We should not treat other nations as we would not wish to be treated ourselves.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
golden rule 6
major world 3
united nations 3
world traditions 2
religious orthodoxy 2
religious people 2
young people 2
give guidelines 2


Important Words


  1. applied
  2. appreciation
  3. beginning
  4. current
  5. endearingly
  6. ethos
  7. europe
  8. failing
  9. force
  10. global
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  12. golden
  13. harmony
  14. ideology
  15. moment
  16. nations
  17. people
  18. promote
  19. religion
  20. religious
  21. report
  22. retained
  23. rule
  24. secularism
  25. sense
  26. shown
  27. situation
  28. states
  29. test
  30. time
  31. treat
  32. treated
  33. understanding
  34. united
  35. western
  36. wide
  37. world