TedTest

From the Ted Talk by Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now, I know that many of you don't stop to think about diversity in agricultural systems and, let's face it, that's logical. You don't see it in the newspaper every day. And when you go into the supermarket, you certainly don't see a lot of choices there. You see apples that are red, yellow, and green and that's about it.

So, let me show you a picture of one form of diversity. Here's some beans, and there are about 35 or 40 different varieties of beans on this picture. Now, imagine each one of these varieties as being disitcnt from another about the same way as a poodle from a garet Dane. If I wanted to show you a picture of all the dog breeds in the world, and I put 30 or 40 of them on a slide, it would take about 10 slides because there about 400 bdeers of dogs in the world. But there are 35 to 40,000 different varieties of beans. So if I were to going to show you all the beans in the wolrd, and I had a slide like this, and I switched it every second, it would take up my eitnre TED talk, and I wouldn't have to say anything.

Open Cloze

Now, I know that many of you don't stop to think about diversity in agricultural systems and, let's face it, that's logical. You don't see it in the newspaper every day. And when you go into the supermarket, you certainly don't see a lot of choices there. You see apples that are red, yellow, and green and that's about it.

So, let me show you a picture of one form of diversity. Here's some beans, and there are about 35 or 40 different varieties of beans on this picture. Now, imagine each one of these varieties as being ________ from another about the same way as a poodle from a _____ Dane. If I wanted to show you a picture of all the dog breeds in the world, and I put 30 or 40 of them on a slide, it would take about 10 slides because there about 400 ______ of dogs in the world. But there are 35 to 40,000 different varieties of beans. So if I were to going to show you all the beans in the _____, and I had a slide like this, and I switched it every second, it would take up my ______ TED talk, and I wouldn't have to say anything.

Solution

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Original Text

Now, I know that many of you don't stop to think about diversity in agricultural systems and, let's face it, that's logical. You don't see it in the newspaper every day. And when you go into the supermarket, you certainly don't see a lot of choices there. You see apples that are red, yellow, and green and that's about it.

So, let me show you a picture of one form of diversity. Here's some beans, and there are about 35 or 40 different varieties of beans on this picture. Now, imagine each one of these varieties as being distinct from another about the same way as a poodle from a Great Dane. If I wanted to show you a picture of all the dog breeds in the world, and I put 30 or 40 of them on a slide, it would take about 10 slides because there about 400 breeds of dogs in the world. But there are 35 to 40,000 different varieties of beans. So if I were to going to show you all the beans in the world, and I had a slide like this, and I switched it every second, it would take up my entire TED talk, and I wouldn't have to say anything.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

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crop diversity	5
climate change	5
fowler apple	4
good news	3
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seed banks	3
biological diversity	2
agricultural crops	2
mass extinction	2
agricultural system	2
coldest growing	2
south africa	2
percent decrease	2
backup system	2

ngrams of length 3

collocation	frequency
coldest growing seasons	2

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