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From the Ted Talk by Charity Wayua: A few ways to fix a government

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The President of Kenya knew this, which is why in 2014, he came to our lab and asked us to partner with him to be able to help Kenya to jump-start business gtrowh. He set an ambitious goal: he wanted Kenya to be ranked top 50 in this World Bank ranking. In 2014 when he came, Kenya was ranked 136 out of 189 countries. We had our work cut out for us.

Fortunately, he came to the right place. We're not just a Band-Aid kind of team. We're a group of cmpueotr ssitincets, maatacinehitms, engineers and a cceanr researcher, who understood that in order to cure the sickness of a system as big as government, we needed to examine the whole body, and then we needed to drill down all the way from the onargs, into the tissues, all the way to single clles, so that we could poerprly make a diagnosis.

Open Cloze


The President of Kenya knew this, which is why in 2014, he came to our lab and asked us to partner with him to be able to help Kenya to jump-start business ______. He set an ambitious goal: he wanted Kenya to be ranked top 50 in this World Bank ranking. In 2014 when he came, Kenya was ranked 136 out of 189 countries. We had our work cut out for us.

Fortunately, he came to the right place. We're not just a Band-Aid kind of team. We're a group of ________ __________, ______________, engineers and a ______ researcher, who understood that in order to cure the sickness of a system as big as government, we needed to examine the whole body, and then we needed to drill down all the way from the ______, into the tissues, all the way to single _____, so that we could ________ make a diagnosis.

Solution


  1. computer
  2. scientists
  3. cancer
  4. cells
  5. growth
  6. properly
  7. mathematicians
  8. organs

Original Text


The President of Kenya knew this, which is why in 2014, he came to our lab and asked us to partner with him to be able to help Kenya to jump-start business growth. He set an ambitious goal: he wanted Kenya to be ranked top 50 in this World Bank ranking. In 2014 when he came, Kenya was ranked 136 out of 189 countries. We had our work cut out for us.

Fortunately, he came to the right place. We're not just a Band-Aid kind of team. We're a group of computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers and a cancer researcher, who understood that in order to cure the sickness of a system as big as government, we needed to examine the whole body, and then we needed to drill down all the way from the organs, into the tissues, all the way to single cells, so that we could properly make a diagnosis.

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Important Words


  1. ambitious
  2. asked
  3. bank
  4. big
  5. body
  6. business
  7. cancer
  8. cells
  9. computer
  10. countries
  11. cure
  12. cut
  13. diagnosis
  14. drill
  15. engineers
  16. examine
  17. fortunately
  18. government
  19. group
  20. growth
  21. kenya
  22. kind
  23. knew
  24. lab
  25. mathematicians
  26. needed
  27. order
  28. organs
  29. partner
  30. place
  31. president
  32. properly
  33. ranked
  34. ranking
  35. researcher
  36. scientists
  37. set
  38. sickness
  39. single
  40. system
  41. team
  42. tissues
  43. top
  44. understood
  45. wanted
  46. work
  47. world