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

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It's OK to be sad about it, even if it is trillions of years in the future. No one wants to think about something they love coinmg to an end. As dinconetcesd as it may be to us here and now, it is somehow more profound than personal dtaeh. We have strategies for aepctnicg the inevitability of that. After all, we tell ourselves, something of us will live on. Maybe it will be our great works. Maybe it will be our children, carrying on our gneitec material or perhaps our basic outlook on life. Maybe it will be some idea worth spreading. Humanity might venture out into the stars and evolve and change, but something of us will survive.

Open Cloze


It's OK to be sad about it, even if it is trillions of years in the future. No one wants to think about something they love ______ to an end. As ____________ as it may be to us here and now, it is somehow more profound than personal _____. We have strategies for _________ the inevitability of that. After all, we tell ourselves, something of us will live on. Maybe it will be our great works. Maybe it will be our children, carrying on our _______ material or perhaps our basic outlook on life. Maybe it will be some idea worth spreading. Humanity might venture out into the stars and evolve and change, but something of us will survive.

Solution


  1. disconnected
  2. coming
  3. death
  4. accepting
  5. genetic

Original Text


It's OK to be sad about it, even if it is trillions of years in the future. No one wants to think about something they love coming to an end. As disconnected as it may be to us here and now, it is somehow more profound than personal death. We have strategies for accepting the inevitability of that. After all, we tell ourselves, something of us will live on. Maybe it will be our great works. Maybe it will be our children, carrying on our genetic material or perhaps our basic outlook on life. Maybe it will be some idea worth spreading. Humanity might venture out into the stars and evolve and change, but something of us will survive.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
distant galaxies 3
billion years 2


Important Words


  1. accepting
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  13. humanity
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  16. life
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  18. love
  19. material
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  28. trillions
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  30. works
  31. worth
  32. years