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From the Ted Talk by A.J. Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited!

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Number four, a kedinr world. Now, I know that there are family fdues. I have three sons, so I see how they fight. But I think that there's also a human bias to treat your family a little better than sranrtges. I think this tree is going to be bad news for bigots, because they're going to have to realize that they are cousins with thousands of people in whatever ethnic group they hppaen to have iseuss with, and I think you look back at history, and a lot of the terrible things we've done to each other is because one group thinks another group is sub-human, and you can't do that anymore. We're not just part of the same species. We're part of the same family. We sarhe 99.9 percent of our DNA.

Open Cloze


Number four, a ______ world. Now, I know that there are family _____. I have three sons, so I see how they fight. But I think that there's also a human bias to treat your family a little better than _________. I think this tree is going to be bad news for bigots, because they're going to have to realize that they are cousins with thousands of people in whatever ethnic group they ______ to have ______ with, and I think you look back at history, and a lot of the terrible things we've done to each other is because one group thinks another group is sub-human, and you can't do that anymore. We're not just part of the same species. We're part of the same family. We _____ 99.9 percent of our DNA.

Solution


  1. kinder
  2. happen
  3. feuds
  4. issues
  5. share
  6. strangers

Original Text


Number four, a kinder world. Now, I know that there are family feuds. I have three sons, so I see how they fight. But I think that there's also a human bias to treat your family a little better than strangers. I think this tree is going to be bad news for bigots, because they're going to have to realize that they are cousins with thousands of people in whatever ethnic group they happen to have issues with, and I think you look back at history, and a lot of the terrible things we've done to each other is because one group thinks another group is sub-human, and you can't do that anymore. We're not just part of the same species. We're part of the same family. We share 99.9 percent of our DNA.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
family tree 4
world family 2
million people 2
mary queen 2
family reunion 2


Important Words


  1. anymore
  2. bad
  3. bias
  4. bigots
  5. cousins
  6. dna
  7. ethnic
  8. family
  9. feuds
  10. fight
  11. group
  12. happen
  13. history
  14. human
  15. issues
  16. kinder
  17. lot
  18. news
  19. number
  20. part
  21. people
  22. percent
  23. realize
  24. share
  25. sons
  26. species
  27. strangers
  28. terrible
  29. thinks
  30. thousands
  31. treat
  32. tree
  33. world