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From the Ted Talk by Shah Rukh Khan: Thoughts on humanity, fame and love

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So you may use your power to build walls and keep poplee outside, or you may use it to break barriers and welcome them in. You may use your faith to make people afraid and terrify them into submission, or you can use it to give courage to people so they rise to the geaertst heights of elnnnitgehemt. You can use your ergeny to build nuclear bombs and spaerd the darkness of destruction, or you can use it to spread the joy of light to millions. You may filthy up the oceans callously and cut down all the forests. You can derstoy the ecology, or turn to them with love and regenerate life from the waters and trees. You may land on Mars and build armed citadels, or you may look for life-forms and species to learn from and respect. And you can use all the moynes we all have earned to wage flitue wars and give guns in the hands of little children to kill each other with, or you can use it to make more food to fill their stomachs with.

Open Cloze


So you may use your power to build walls and keep ______ outside, or you may use it to break barriers and welcome them in. You may use your faith to make people afraid and terrify them into submission, or you can use it to give courage to people so they rise to the ________ heights of _____________. You can use your ______ to build nuclear bombs and ______ the darkness of destruction, or you can use it to spread the joy of light to millions. You may filthy up the oceans callously and cut down all the forests. You can _______ the ecology, or turn to them with love and regenerate life from the waters and trees. You may land on Mars and build armed citadels, or you may look for life-forms and species to learn from and respect. And you can use all the ______ we all have earned to wage ______ wars and give guns in the hands of little children to kill each other with, or you can use it to make more food to fill their stomachs with.

Solution


  1. destroy
  2. greatest
  3. people
  4. moneys
  5. futile
  6. energy
  7. enlightenment
  8. spread

Original Text


So you may use your power to build walls and keep people outside, or you may use it to break barriers and welcome them in. You may use your faith to make people afraid and terrify them into submission, or you can use it to give courage to people so they rise to the greatest heights of enlightenment. You can use your energy to build nuclear bombs and spread the darkness of destruction, or you can use it to spread the joy of light to millions. You may filthy up the oceans callously and cut down all the forests. You can destroy the ecology, or turn to them with love and regenerate life from the waters and trees. You may land on Mars and build armed citadels, or you may look for life-forms and species to learn from and respect. And you can use all the moneys we all have earned to wage futile wars and give guns in the hands of little children to kill each other with, or you can use it to make more food to fill their stomachs with.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
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movie star 2
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freedom fighter 2
superhero suit 2
loosely translates 2


Important Words


  1. afraid
  2. armed
  3. barriers
  4. bombs
  5. break
  6. build
  7. callously
  8. children
  9. citadels
  10. courage
  11. cut
  12. darkness
  13. destroy
  14. destruction
  15. earned
  16. ecology
  17. energy
  18. enlightenment
  19. faith
  20. fill
  21. filthy
  22. food
  23. forests
  24. futile
  25. give
  26. greatest
  27. guns
  28. hands
  29. heights
  30. joy
  31. kill
  32. land
  33. learn
  34. life
  35. light
  36. love
  37. mars
  38. millions
  39. moneys
  40. nuclear
  41. oceans
  42. people
  43. power
  44. regenerate
  45. respect
  46. rise
  47. species
  48. spread
  49. stomachs
  50. submission
  51. terrify
  52. trees
  53. turn
  54. wage
  55. walls
  56. wars
  57. waters