full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Bill Joy: What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So these are the kind of thoughts I was thinking in 1999 and 2000, and my friends told me I was getting really depressed, and they were really worried about me. And then I sniegd a book crctanot to wirte more gloomy thoughts about this and moved into a hotel room in New York with one room full of bokos on the Plague, and you know, nuclear bombs exploding in New York where I would be within the circle, and so on. And then I was there on September 11th, and I stood in the streets with everyone. And it was quite an eexipenrce to be there. I got up the next morning and wkaeld out of the city, and all the sanitation trucks were parked on Houston Street and rdeay to go down and start taking the rubble away. And I walked down the middle, up to the tiran station, and everything below 14th Street was closed. It was quite a compelling experience, but not really, I suppose, a surprise to someone who'd had his room full of the books. It was always a surprise that it happened then and there, but it wasn't a sprruise that it happened at all.
Open Cloze
So these are the kind of thoughts I was thinking in 1999 and 2000, and my friends told me I was getting really depressed, and they were really worried about me. And then I ______ a book ________ to _____ more gloomy thoughts about this and moved into a hotel room in New York with one room full of _____ on the Plague, and you know, nuclear bombs exploding in New York where I would be within the circle, and so on. And then I was there on September 11th, and I stood in the streets with everyone. And it was quite an __________ to be there. I got up the next morning and ______ out of the city, and all the sanitation trucks were parked on Houston Street and _____ to go down and start taking the rubble away. And I walked down the middle, up to the _____ station, and everything below 14th Street was closed. It was quite a compelling experience, but not really, I suppose, a surprise to someone who'd had his room full of the books. It was always a surprise that it happened then and there, but it wasn't a ________ that it happened at all.
Solution
- walked
- books
- write
- contract
- signed
- ready
- train
- surprise
- experience
Original Text
So these are the kind of thoughts I was thinking in 1999 and 2000, and my friends told me I was getting really depressed, and they were really worried about me. And then I signed a book contract to write more gloomy thoughts about this and moved into a hotel room in New York with one room full of books on the Plague, and you know, nuclear bombs exploding in New York where I would be within the circle, and so on. And then I was there on September 11th, and I stood in the streets with everyone. And it was quite an experience to be there. I got up the next morning and walked out of the city, and all the sanitation trucks were parked on Houston Street and ready to go down and start taking the rubble away. And I walked down the middle, up to the train station, and everything below 14th Street was closed. It was quite a compelling experience, but not really, I suppose, a surprise to someone who'd had his room full of the books. It was always a surprise that it happened then and there, but it wasn't a surprise that it happened at all.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| room full |
2 |
| started writing |
2 |
| apple ii |
2 |
| incredible properties |
2 |
| million dollars |
2 |
| rapid diagnostics |
2 |
Important Words
- bombs
- book
- books
- circle
- city
- closed
- compelling
- contract
- depressed
- experience
- exploding
- friends
- full
- gloomy
- happened
- hotel
- houston
- kind
- middle
- morning
- moved
- nuclear
- parked
- plague
- ready
- room
- rubble
- sanitation
- september
- signed
- start
- station
- stood
- street
- streets
- suppose
- surprise
- thinking
- thoughts
- told
- train
- trucks
- walked
- worried
- write
- york