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From the Ted Talk by Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

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Excuse me, who built these structures? They are in front of you. The best civil engineers we had, the best planners, the best architects. We can say that because of them, because of their forefathers, India could get the first erniineegng college in 1847. There were no English medium sohlcos at that time, even no hdnii schools, [unclear] schools. But such people, compelled to the East India Company, which came here for business, a very drity kind of business ... (Laughter) but not to crtaee the engineering colleges. But because of them, first engineering college was created in a slaml village, not in the town.

Open Cloze


Excuse me, who built these structures? They are in front of you. The best civil engineers we had, the best planners, the best architects. We can say that because of them, because of their forefathers, India could get the first ___________ college in 1847. There were no English medium _______ at that time, even no _____ schools, [unclear] schools. But such people, compelled to the East India Company, which came here for business, a very _____ kind of business ... (Laughter) but not to ______ the engineering colleges. But because of them, first engineering college was created in a _____ village, not in the town.

Solution


  1. schools
  2. engineering
  3. create
  4. dirty
  5. small
  6. hindi

Original Text


Excuse me, who built these structures? They are in front of you. The best civil engineers we had, the best planners, the best architects. We can say that because of them, because of their forefathers, India could get the first engineering college in 1847. There were no English medium schools at that time, even no Hindi schools, [unclear] schools. But such people, compelled to the East India Company, which came here for business, a very dirty kind of business ... (Laughter) but not to create the engineering colleges. But because of them, first engineering college was created in a small village, not in the town.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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water body 7
water level 3
ground water 3
harvest rain 2
desert society 2
million gallons 2
water hyacinth 2
beautiful water 2
water table 2
small water 2
dry water 2
million years 2
thousand words 2
engineering college 2

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collocation frequency
dry water body 2

Important Words


  1. architects
  2. built
  3. business
  4. civil
  5. college
  6. colleges
  7. company
  8. compelled
  9. create
  10. created
  11. dirty
  12. east
  13. engineering
  14. engineers
  15. english
  16. excuse
  17. forefathers
  18. front
  19. hindi
  20. india
  21. kind
  22. laughter
  23. medium
  24. people
  25. planners
  26. schools
  27. small
  28. structures
  29. time
  30. town
  31. unclear
  32. village