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From the Ted Talk by Ma Jun: An interactive map to track (and end) pollution in China

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I believe there's a chance for us to succeed, as I know a tool that I have seen worked to help reduce the ernuomos environmental pollution. It is the power of transparency, pliuooltn information made pliubc using mobile internet and other IT technologies may empower millions of citizens to speed change by holding copaotrrinos and gnveneormt agencies accountable.

I personally got involved in the tcarnepsarny drive for water pollution cotnrol. Years ago, beside Lake Tai, the third largest freshwater lake in China, I saw a group of fishermen using long ladles to scoop out the algae bloom. One fisherman said to me, "When I was young, on a hot day like this, I would have jumped into the lake for a [swim].” "But now," he said, "the fish are gone and we're paid to scoop out the algae." Pointing to those factories not far from the slerhinoe, he said the lake would not be clean until they stop dumping.

Open Cloze


I believe there's a chance for us to succeed, as I know a tool that I have seen worked to help reduce the ________ environmental pollution. It is the power of transparency, _________ information made ______ using mobile internet and other IT technologies may empower millions of citizens to speed change by holding ____________ and __________ agencies accountable.

I personally got involved in the ____________ drive for water pollution _______. Years ago, beside Lake Tai, the third largest freshwater lake in China, I saw a group of fishermen using long ladles to scoop out the algae bloom. One fisherman said to me, "When I was young, on a hot day like this, I would have jumped into the lake for a [swim].” "But now," he said, "the fish are gone and we're paid to scoop out the algae." Pointing to those factories not far from the _________, he said the lake would not be clean until they stop dumping.

Solution


  1. transparency
  2. government
  3. enormous
  4. control
  5. corporations
  6. public
  7. shoreline
  8. pollution

Original Text


I believe there's a chance for us to succeed, as I know a tool that I have seen worked to help reduce the enormous environmental pollution. It is the power of transparency, pollution information made public using mobile internet and other IT technologies may empower millions of citizens to speed change by holding corporations and government agencies accountable.

I personally got involved in the transparency drive for water pollution control. Years ago, beside Lake Tai, the third largest freshwater lake in China, I saw a group of fishermen using long ladles to scoop out the algae bloom. One fisherman said to me, "When I was young, on a hot day like this, I would have jumped into the lake for a [swim].” "But now," he said, "the fish are gone and we're paid to scoop out the algae." Pointing to those factories not far from the shoreline, he said the lake would not be clean until they stop dumping.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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global supply 3
steel plant 3
empower millions 2
monitoring data 2
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million metric 2
thousand companies 2
billion dollars 2

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collocation frequency
global supply chain 2
million metric tons 2

Important Words


  1. accountable
  2. agencies
  3. algae
  4. bloom
  5. chance
  6. change
  7. china
  8. citizens
  9. clean
  10. control
  11. corporations
  12. day
  13. drive
  14. dumping
  15. empower
  16. enormous
  17. environmental
  18. factories
  19. fish
  20. fisherman
  21. fishermen
  22. freshwater
  23. government
  24. group
  25. holding
  26. hot
  27. information
  28. internet
  29. involved
  30. jumped
  31. ladles
  32. lake
  33. largest
  34. long
  35. millions
  36. mobile
  37. paid
  38. personally
  39. pointing
  40. pollution
  41. power
  42. public
  43. reduce
  44. scoop
  45. shoreline
  46. speed
  47. stop
  48. succeed
  49. swim
  50. tai
  51. technologies
  52. tool
  53. transparency
  54. water
  55. worked
  56. years
  57. young