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From the Ted Talk by Robert Hammond: Building a park in the sky

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The hihnlgie is an old, elevated rail line that runs for a mile and a half right through Manhattan. And it was orangilliy a fhiregt line that ran down 10th Ave. And it became known as "Death Avenue" because so many people were run over by the trains that the railroad herid a guy on horseback to run in front, and he became known as the "West Side Cowboy." But even with a cowboy, about one person a month was killed and run over. So they eevaletd it. They built it 30 ft. in the air, right through the middle of the city. But with the rise of interstate tuicknrg, it was used less and less. And by 1980, the last train rode. It was a train loaded with frozen turkeys — they say, at Thanksgiving — from the meatpacking district. And then it was anboaendd.

Open Cloze


The ________ is an old, elevated rail line that runs for a mile and a half right through Manhattan. And it was __________ a _______ line that ran down 10th Ave. And it became known as "Death Avenue" because so many people were run over by the trains that the railroad _____ a guy on horseback to run in front, and he became known as the "West Side Cowboy." But even with a cowboy, about one person a month was killed and run over. So they ________ it. They built it 30 ft. in the air, right through the middle of the city. But with the rise of interstate ________, it was used less and less. And by 1980, the last train rode. It was a train loaded with frozen turkeys — they say, at Thanksgiving — from the meatpacking district. And then it was _________.

Solution


  1. highline
  2. trucking
  3. abandoned
  4. originally
  5. freight
  6. elevated
  7. hired

Original Text


The Highline is an old, elevated rail line that runs for a mile and a half right through Manhattan. And it was originally a freight line that ran down 10th Ave. And it became known as "Death Avenue" because so many people were run over by the trains that the railroad hired a guy on horseback to run in front, and he became known as the "West Side Cowboy." But even with a cowboy, about one person a month was killed and run over. So they elevated it. They built it 30 ft. in the air, right through the middle of the city. But with the rise of interstate trucking, it was used less and less. And by 1980, the last train rode. It was a train loaded with frozen turkeys — they say, at Thanksgiving — from the meatpacking district. And then it was abandoned.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
high line 6


Important Words


  1. abandoned
  2. air
  3. ave
  4. built
  5. city
  6. cowboy
  7. district
  8. elevated
  9. freight
  10. front
  11. frozen
  12. ft
  13. guy
  14. highline
  15. hired
  16. horseback
  17. interstate
  18. killed
  19. line
  20. loaded
  21. manhattan
  22. meatpacking
  23. middle
  24. mile
  25. month
  26. originally
  27. people
  28. person
  29. rail
  30. railroad
  31. ran
  32. rise
  33. rode
  34. run
  35. runs
  36. side
  37. thanksgiving
  38. train
  39. trains
  40. trucking
  41. turkeys