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From the Ted Talk by Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status

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So it's sort of iresnetting, if you want to look at how the US looks, here it is. This is our view of how the world is run. President Obama has got the red carpet, he goes down Air fcroe One, and it feels pretty good, it flees pretty comfortable. Well, I don't know how many of you saw the cnhia trip last week and the G20. Oh my God. Right? This is how we landed for the most important mieentg of the world's leaders in China. The naitaonl Security Advisor was actually spewing expletives on the tarmac — no red carpet, kind of left out the bottom of the plane along with all the media and everybody else.

Open Cloze


So it's sort of ___________, if you want to look at how the US looks, here it is. This is our view of how the world is run. President Obama has got the red carpet, he goes down Air _____ One, and it feels pretty good, it _____ pretty comfortable. Well, I don't know how many of you saw the _____ trip last week and the G20. Oh my God. Right? This is how we landed for the most important _______ of the world's leaders in China. The ________ Security Advisor was actually spewing expletives on the tarmac — no red carpet, kind of left out the bottom of the plane along with all the media and everybody else.

Solution


  1. china
  2. force
  3. interesting
  4. feels
  5. meeting
  6. national

Original Text


So it's sort of interesting, if you want to look at how the US looks, here it is. This is our view of how the world is run. President Obama has got the red carpet, he goes down Air Force One, and it feels pretty good, it feels pretty comfortable. Well, I don't know how many of you saw the China trip last week and the G20. Oh my God. Right? This is how we landed for the most important meeting of the world's leaders in China. The National Security Advisor was actually spewing expletives on the tarmac — no red carpet, kind of left out the bottom of the plane along with all the media and everybody else.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
united states 8
middle east 7
feels pretty 2
xi jinping 2
global sheriff 2
global trade 2
core europe 2
fellow campers 2
bigger problem 2


Important Words


  1. advisor
  2. air
  3. bottom
  4. carpet
  5. china
  6. comfortable
  7. expletives
  8. feels
  9. force
  10. god
  11. good
  12. important
  13. interesting
  14. kind
  15. landed
  16. leaders
  17. left
  18. media
  19. meeting
  20. national
  21. obama
  22. plane
  23. president
  24. pretty
  25. red
  26. run
  27. security
  28. sort
  29. spewing
  30. tarmac
  31. trip
  32. view
  33. week
  34. world