Listen to the recording, and provide the missing words. The story of the cave is an 1) __________ of the life of all enlightened people. The cave-dwellers are humans before philosophy. The sun is the 2) __________ . The alienation of the returned philosopher is what all truth-teller can expect when they take their knowledge back to people who have not 3) _________________ thinking. For Plato, we are all for much of our lives 4) _________. Many of the things we get excited about, life fame, the perfect 5) ___________ , a high-status job, are infinitely less real than we suppose. They are for the most part, phantoms 6) ___________ by our culture onto the walls of our 7)__________ and flawed minds. But because everyone around us is insisting that they are genuine, we are taken in f rom a young age. It’s not our fault 8) ____________ . No one chooses to be in the cave, that’s just where we 9) ___________ begin. We are all starting from a very difficult place. If, like the man in Plato's story, you bluntly t ell pe ople they are wrong, you get nowhere. You cause deep offence and may endanger your own life. Athens had after all recently put Socrates, Plato’s friend, to death. Plato knew from close experience jus t what the cave-dwellers might do to those who claim to know the sun. We have all started in that cave, but it is Plato' s 10) _______ that we don’t have to stay there, and the road out is called, quite simply, philosophy. This is the sun whose light we can follow, and by whose rays the 11) ______________ of things can become clear.