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From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: What if you experienced every human life in history?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Imagine that your life began roughly 300,000 yraes ago as one of the planet’s first hmunas. At this time, you live in Africa near modern-day Morocco, and your life isn’t too different from that of your hominid parents. You make crude tloos, hunt, and ghtaer food and materials, until, eventually, you perish. But this is only the bnieinngg. Because after dying, you travel back in time to be reincarnated as the second human ever to live. While you don't remember your former life, your previous actions affect you nonetheless. And after dying once more, you return as the third person, then the fourth, the fifth, and so on— linivg the lives of every single human that’s ever walked the Earth.

Open Cloze


Imagine that your life began roughly 300,000 _____ ago as one of the planet’s first ______. At this time, you live in Africa near modern-day Morocco, and your life isn’t too different from that of your hominid parents. You make crude _____, hunt, and ______ food and materials, until, eventually, you perish. But this is only the _________. Because after dying, you travel back in time to be reincarnated as the second human ever to live. While you don't remember your former life, your previous actions affect you nonetheless. And after dying once more, you return as the third person, then the fourth, the fifth, and so on— ______ the lives of every single human that’s ever walked the Earth.

Solution


  1. tools
  2. gather
  3. years
  4. living
  5. beginning
  6. humans

Original Text


Imagine that your life began roughly 300,000 years ago as one of the planet’s first humans. At this time, you live in Africa near modern-day Morocco, and your life isn’t too different from that of your hominid parents. You make crude tools, hunt, and gather food and materials, until, eventually, you perish. But this is only the beginning. Because after dying, you travel back in time to be reincarnated as the second human ever to live. While you don't remember your former life, your previous actions affect you nonetheless. And after dying once more, you return as the third person, then the fourth, the fifth, and so on— living the lives of every single human that’s ever walked the Earth.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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Important Words


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  34. tools
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