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From the Ted Talk by Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint

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The corruption in the state administration of countries like Albania — it's not up to me to say also like Greece — can be fought only by modernization. Reinventing the government by rtneinenivg politics itself is the answer, and not reinventing people based on a ready-made formula that the dvleeoepd world often tries in vain to impose to people like us. (Applause)

Things have come to this ponit because politicians in general, but especially in our countries, let's face it, think people are stupid. They take it for granted that, come what may, people have to follow them, while politics, more and more, fails to offer answers for their public concerns or the exigencies of the common people. Politics has come to rbmeelse a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gladalruy making room for blindness and desperation. Seen from those stairs, all pociiatnlis today seem the same, and piciltos has come to resemble a sport that inspires more aggressiveness and pessimism than social cohesion and the dreise for civic pagintorsam.

Open Cloze


The corruption in the state administration of countries like Albania — it's not up to me to say also like Greece — can be fought only by modernization. Reinventing the government by ___________ politics itself is the answer, and not reinventing people based on a ready-made formula that the _________ world often tries in vain to impose to people like us. (Applause)

Things have come to this _____ because politicians in general, but especially in our countries, let's face it, think people are stupid. They take it for granted that, come what may, people have to follow them, while politics, more and more, fails to offer answers for their public concerns or the exigencies of the common people. Politics has come to ________ a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is _________ making room for blindness and desperation. Seen from those stairs, all ___________ today seem the same, and ________ has come to resemble a sport that inspires more aggressiveness and pessimism than social cohesion and the ______ for civic ___________.

Solution


  1. developed
  2. reinventing
  3. desire
  4. resemble
  5. politics
  6. gradually
  7. point
  8. protaganism
  9. politicians

Original Text


The corruption in the state administration of countries like Albania — it's not up to me to say also like Greece — can be fought only by modernization. Reinventing the government by reinventing politics itself is the answer, and not reinventing people based on a ready-made formula that the developed world often tries in vain to impose to people like us. (Applause)

Things have come to this point because politicians in general, but especially in our countries, let's face it, think people are stupid. They take it for granted that, come what may, people have to follow them, while politics, more and more, fails to offer answers for their public concerns or the exigencies of the common people. Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation. Seen from those stairs, all politicians today seem the same, and politics has come to resemble a sport that inspires more aggressiveness and pessimism than social cohesion and the desire for civic protaganism.

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Important Words


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