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From the Ted Talk by Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So, what's the future? After all, we are the mouse. Whatever the future is, we should fight against the [cat]. There is not only in China, but also in the United States there are some very small, cute but bad cats.

(Laughter)

SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, TPP and ITU. And also, like Facebook and Google, they claim they are fedrnis of the mouse, but sometimes we see them dnitag the cats. So my conclusion is very simple. We Chinese fight for our freedom, you just watch your bad cats. Don't let them hook [up] with the csehine cats. Only in this way, in the fturue, we will achieve the dreams of the mouse: that we can teewt aymtine, anywhere, without fear.

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So, what's the future? After all, we are the mouse. Whatever the future is, we should fight against the [cat]. There is not only in China, but also in the United States there are some very small, cute but bad cats.

(Laughter)

SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, TPP and ITU. And also, like Facebook and Google, they claim they are _______ of the mouse, but sometimes we see them ______ the cats. So my conclusion is very simple. We Chinese fight for our freedom, you just watch your bad cats. Don't let them hook [up] with the _______ cats. Only in this way, in the ______, we will achieve the dreams of the mouse: that we can _____ _______, anywhere, without fear.

Solution


  1. friends
  2. future
  3. chinese
  4. tweet
  5. anytime
  6. dating

Original Text


So, what's the future? After all, we are the mouse. Whatever the future is, we should fight against the [cat]. There is not only in China, but also in the United States there are some very small, cute but bad cats.

(Laughter)

SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, TPP and ITU. And also, like Facebook and Google, they claim they are friends of the mouse, but sometimes we see them dating the cats. So my conclusion is very simple. We Chinese fight for our freedom, you just watch your bad cats. Don't let them hook [up] with the Chinese cats. Only in this way, in the future, we will achieve the dreams of the mouse: that we can tweet anytime, anywhere, without fear.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
central government 5
chinese internet 4
chinese central 4
bric country 3
chinese social 3
social media 3
public opinion 3
united states 3
local government 3
country means 2
internet users 2
chinese government 2
chinese history 2
million criticisms 2
american embassy 2
chinese weibo 2
media platform 2
public sphere 2
chinese people 2
top leaders 2
river crab 2
local cats 2
bad cats 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
chinese central government 4
chinese social media 2

Important Words


  1. achieve
  2. acta
  3. anytime
  4. bad
  5. cat
  6. cats
  7. china
  8. chinese
  9. claim
  10. conclusion
  11. cute
  12. dating
  13. dreams
  14. facebook
  15. fear
  16. fight
  17. freedom
  18. friends
  19. future
  20. google
  21. hook
  22. itu
  23. laughter
  24. mouse
  25. pipa
  26. simple
  27. small
  28. sopa
  29. states
  30. tpp
  31. tweet
  32. united
  33. watch