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From the Ted Talk by Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But the key to that is by looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, where is the real risk? What is the real thing that you should be afraid of? Not just a generic fear of bad things happening. You can fundamentally cagnhe your reaction to things so that it allows you to go paelcs and see things and do things that otherwise would be completely denied to you ...

where you could see the hardpan south of the Sahara, or you can see New York City in a way that is almost dreamlike, or the unconscious gingham of eetrasn Europe fields or the Great Lakes as a cclotelion of small puddles. You can see the fluat lines of San ficasrnco and the way the water pours out under the brdige, just entirely different than any other way that you could have if you had not found a way to conquer your fear. You see a beauty that otherwise never would have happened.

Open Cloze


But the key to that is by looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, where is the real risk? What is the real thing that you should be afraid of? Not just a generic fear of bad things happening. You can fundamentally ______ your reaction to things so that it allows you to go ______ and see things and do things that otherwise would be completely denied to you ...

where you could see the hardpan south of the Sahara, or you can see New York City in a way that is almost dreamlike, or the unconscious gingham of _______ Europe fields or the Great Lakes as a __________ of small puddles. You can see the _____ lines of San _________ and the way the water pours out under the ______, just entirely different than any other way that you could have if you had not found a way to conquer your fear. You see a beauty that otherwise never would have happened.

Solution


  1. change
  2. collection
  3. places
  4. eastern
  5. bridge
  6. fault
  7. francisco

Original Text


But the key to that is by looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, where is the real risk? What is the real thing that you should be afraid of? Not just a generic fear of bad things happening. You can fundamentally change your reaction to things so that it allows you to go places and see things and do things that otherwise would be completely denied to you ...

where you could see the hardpan south of the Sahara, or you can see New York City in a way that is almost dreamlike, or the unconscious gingham of Eastern Europe fields or the Great Lakes as a collection of small puddles. You can see the fault lines of San Francisco and the way the water pours out under the bridge, just entirely different than any other way that you could have if you had not found a way to conquer your fear. You see a beauty that otherwise never would have happened.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
kennedy space 3
brown recluse 3
black widow 3
astro van 2
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Important Words


  1. actual
  2. afraid
  3. bad
  4. beauty
  5. bridge
  6. change
  7. city
  8. collection
  9. completely
  10. conquer
  11. danger
  12. denied
  13. difference
  14. dreamlike
  15. eastern
  16. europe
  17. fault
  18. fear
  19. fields
  20. francisco
  21. fundamentally
  22. generic
  23. gingham
  24. great
  25. happened
  26. happening
  27. hardpan
  28. key
  29. lakes
  30. lines
  31. perceived
  32. places
  33. pours
  34. puddles
  35. reaction
  36. real
  37. risk
  38. sahara
  39. san
  40. small
  41. south
  42. unconscious
  43. water
  44. york