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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Lev: The unheard story of the Sistine Chapel

Unscramble the Blue Letters


You are at ciairctl juncture now in the cielnig. You are exactly at the point where you and I can go no further into the church. The gated enclosure keeps us out of the inner sanctum, and we are cast out much like Adam and Eve. The remaining scenes in the ceiling, they mirror the crowded chaos of the world around us. You have Noah and his Ark and the flood. You have Noah. He's mknaig a sacrifice and a cnveaont with God. Maybe he's the savior. Oh, but no, Noah is the one who grew grapes, invented wine, got drunk and passed out naked in his barn. It is a curious way to design the ceiling, now snittrag out with God creating life, ending up with some guy blind drunk in a barn. And so, compared with Adam, you might think Michelangelo is making fun of us.

Open Cloze


You are at ________ juncture now in the _______. You are exactly at the point where you and I can go no further into the church. The gated enclosure keeps us out of the inner sanctum, and we are cast out much like Adam and Eve. The remaining scenes in the ceiling, they mirror the crowded chaos of the world around us. You have Noah and his Ark and the flood. You have Noah. He's ______ a sacrifice and a ________ with God. Maybe he's the savior. Oh, but no, Noah is the one who grew grapes, invented wine, got drunk and passed out naked in his barn. It is a curious way to design the ceiling, now ________ out with God creating life, ending up with some guy blind drunk in a barn. And so, compared with Adam, you might think Michelangelo is making fun of us.

Solution


  1. critical
  2. starting
  3. covenant
  4. ceiling
  5. making

Original Text


You are at critical juncture now in the ceiling. You are exactly at the point where you and I can go no further into the church. The gated enclosure keeps us out of the inner sanctum, and we are cast out much like Adam and Eve. The remaining scenes in the ceiling, they mirror the crowded chaos of the world around us. You have Noah and his Ark and the flood. You have Noah. He's making a sacrifice and a covenant with God. Maybe he's the savior. Oh, but no, Noah is the one who grew grapes, invented wine, got drunk and passed out naked in his barn. It is a curious way to design the ceiling, now starting out with God creating life, ending up with some guy blind drunk in a barn. And so, compared with Adam, you might think Michelangelo is making fun of us.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
sistine chapel 9
human drama 3
vatican museums 2
original decoration 2
great theater 2
million people 2
pope sixtus 2
gated enclosure 2
michelangelo gave 2


Important Words


  1. adam
  2. ark
  3. barn
  4. blind
  5. cast
  6. ceiling
  7. chaos
  8. church
  9. compared
  10. covenant
  11. creating
  12. critical
  13. crowded
  14. curious
  15. design
  16. drunk
  17. enclosure
  18. eve
  19. flood
  20. fun
  21. gated
  22. god
  23. grapes
  24. grew
  25. guy
  26. invented
  27. juncture
  28. life
  29. making
  30. michelangelo
  31. mirror
  32. naked
  33. noah
  34. passed
  35. point
  36. remaining
  37. sacrifice
  38. sanctum
  39. savior
  40. scenes
  41. starting
  42. wine
  43. world