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From the Ted Talk by Huang Hung: How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response

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HW: But tell us, Huang: You're also doing dances on TikTok, right?

HH: Oh, of course. I'm doing a lot of wok-throwing aerobics on totikk.

HW: I mean, a potential silver lnniig of all of this is that it has laid bare some of the inequities, inequalities in the syetsm, some of the brkoen structures that we have, and if we're smart, we can rbleuid better.

HH: Yes. I think one of the silver linings of this pandemic is that we do realize that the human race has to do something together rather than to be distinguished by our race, by the color of our skin or by our nationality; that this virus obviously is not discriminating against anyone, whether you are rich or poor, important or not important or whatever skin color or naialnitoty you are. So it is a time to be together, rather than to try to pull the world apart and crawl back to our own nationalistic shells.

Open Cloze


HW: But tell us, Huang: You're also doing dances on TikTok, right?

HH: Oh, of course. I'm doing a lot of wok-throwing aerobics on ______.

HW: I mean, a potential silver ______ of all of this is that it has laid bare some of the inequities, inequalities in the ______, some of the ______ structures that we have, and if we're smart, we can _______ better.

HH: Yes. I think one of the silver linings of this pandemic is that we do realize that the human race has to do something together rather than to be distinguished by our race, by the color of our skin or by our nationality; that this virus obviously is not discriminating against anyone, whether you are rich or poor, important or not important or whatever skin color or ___________ you are. So it is a time to be together, rather than to try to pull the world apart and crawl back to our own nationalistic shells.

Solution


  1. system
  2. lining
  3. tiktok
  4. rebuild
  5. nationality
  6. broken

Original Text


HW: But tell us, Huang: You're also doing dances on TikTok, right?

HH: Oh, of course. I'm doing a lot of wok-throwing aerobics on TikTok.

HW: I mean, a potential silver lining of all of this is that it has laid bare some of the inequities, inequalities in the system, some of the broken structures that we have, and if we're smart, we can rebuild better.

HH: Yes. I think one of the silver linings of this pandemic is that we do realize that the human race has to do something together rather than to be distinguished by our race, by the color of our skin or by our nationality; that this virus obviously is not discriminating against anyone, whether you are rich or poor, important or not important or whatever skin color or nationality you are. So it is a time to be together, rather than to try to pull the world apart and crawl back to our own nationalistic shells.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
chinese social 3
individual freedom 2
chinese people 2
human race 2


Important Words


  1. aerobics
  2. bare
  3. broken
  4. color
  5. crawl
  6. dances
  7. discriminating
  8. distinguished
  9. human
  10. important
  11. inequalities
  12. inequities
  13. laid
  14. lining
  15. linings
  16. lot
  17. nationalistic
  18. nationality
  19. pandemic
  20. poor
  21. potential
  22. pull
  23. race
  24. realize
  25. rebuild
  26. rich
  27. shells
  28. silver
  29. skin
  30. smart
  31. structures
  32. system
  33. tiktok
  34. time
  35. virus
  36. world