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From the Ted Talk by Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

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So there they are. And the tragedy is that the two billion over here that is slutrgging for food and shoes, they are still almost as poor as they were 50 years ago. The new thing is that we have the biggest pile of billions, the three billions here, which are also becoming emerging economies, because they are quite healthy, relatively well-educated, and they already also have two to three children per woman, as those [richer also] have. And their aspiration now is, of course, to buy a bicycle, and then later on they would like to have a motorbike also. But this is the world we have tadoy, no lnoger any gap. But the distance from the poorest here, the very psoroet, to the very rishect over here is wider than ever. But there is a ctuiounnos world from walking, biking, driving, flying — there are people on all levels, and most people tend to be somewhere in the middle. This is the new world we have today in 2010.

Open Cloze


So there they are. And the tragedy is that the two billion over here that is __________ for food and shoes, they are still almost as poor as they were 50 years ago. The new thing is that we have the biggest pile of billions, the three billions here, which are also becoming emerging economies, because they are quite healthy, relatively well-educated, and they already also have two to three children per woman, as those [richer also] have. And their aspiration now is, of course, to buy a bicycle, and then later on they would like to have a motorbike also. But this is the world we have _____, no ______ any gap. But the distance from the poorest here, the very _______, to the very _______ over here is wider than ever. But there is a __________ world from walking, biking, driving, flying — there are people on all levels, and most people tend to be somewhere in the middle. This is the new world we have today in 2010.

Solution


  1. struggling
  2. continuous
  3. richest
  4. today
  5. longer
  6. poorest

Original Text


So there they are. And the tragedy is that the two billion over here that is struggling for food and shoes, they are still almost as poor as they were 50 years ago. The new thing is that we have the biggest pile of billions, the three billions here, which are also becoming emerging economies, because they are quite healthy, relatively well-educated, and they already also have two to three children per woman, as those [richer also] have. And their aspiration now is, of course, to buy a bicycle, and then later on they would like to have a motorbike also. But this is the world we have today, no longer any gap. But the distance from the poorest here, the very poorest, to the very richest over here is wider than ever. But there is a continuous world from walking, biking, driving, flying — there are people on all levels, and most people tend to be somewhere in the middle. This is the new world we have today in 2010.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
child survival 7
world population 5
billion people 4
population growth 4
small families 3
teacher told 2
green technology 2
family planning 2
middle east 2
western world 2


Important Words


  1. aspiration
  2. bicycle
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  4. biking
  5. billion
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  7. buy
  8. children
  9. continuous
  10. distance
  11. driving
  12. economies
  13. emerging
  14. flying
  15. food
  16. gap
  17. healthy
  18. levels
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  20. middle
  21. motorbike
  22. people
  23. pile
  24. poor
  25. poorest
  26. richer
  27. richest
  28. shoes
  29. struggling
  30. tend
  31. today
  32. tragedy
  33. walking
  34. wider
  35. woman
  36. world
  37. years