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From the Ted Talk by Katie Mack: The death of the universe -- and what it means for life

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Personally, I feel lcuky. Our cosmos eesxtid for bliilons of years before us and it will carry on long after we are gone. For this brief moment, we are here. We may be insignificant to the cosmos as a whole, but we have an immense power to understand it, to see the beginning, to contemplate the end, to look up into the sky and see ourselves reflected in every tiny point of light. There is a kind of luxury in the freedom to look beyond our own little lveis and contemplate the end of everything. We, fragile, doomed humans carry within us a sense of discovery and wonder. It will persist as long as there are thinking binegs in the csmoos. And we can decide how to use it.

Open Cloze


Personally, I feel _____. Our cosmos _______ for ________ of years before us and it will carry on long after we are gone. For this brief moment, we are here. We may be insignificant to the cosmos as a whole, but we have an immense power to understand it, to see the beginning, to contemplate the end, to look up into the sky and see ourselves reflected in every tiny point of light. There is a kind of luxury in the freedom to look beyond our own little _____ and contemplate the end of everything. We, fragile, doomed humans carry within us a sense of discovery and wonder. It will persist as long as there are thinking ______ in the ______. And we can decide how to use it.

Solution


  1. lives
  2. beings
  3. cosmos
  4. lucky
  5. existed
  6. billions

Original Text


Personally, I feel lucky. Our cosmos existed for billions of years before us and it will carry on long after we are gone. For this brief moment, we are here. We may be insignificant to the cosmos as a whole, but we have an immense power to understand it, to see the beginning, to contemplate the end, to look up into the sky and see ourselves reflected in every tiny point of light. There is a kind of luxury in the freedom to look beyond our own little lives and contemplate the end of everything. We, fragile, doomed humans carry within us a sense of discovery and wonder. It will persist as long as there are thinking beings in the cosmos. And we can decide how to use it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
distant galaxies 3
billion years 2


Important Words


  1. beginning
  2. beings
  3. billions
  4. carry
  5. contemplate
  6. cosmos
  7. decide
  8. discovery
  9. doomed
  10. existed
  11. feel
  12. fragile
  13. freedom
  14. humans
  15. immense
  16. insignificant
  17. kind
  18. light
  19. lives
  20. long
  21. lucky
  22. luxury
  23. moment
  24. persist
  25. personally
  26. point
  27. power
  28. reflected
  29. sense
  30. sky
  31. thinking
  32. tiny
  33. understand
  34. years