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From the Ted Talk by Xiaojun "Tom" Wang: The human cost of coal mining in China

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is how we can sartt to have a fair, clean transition above the ground without leaving our people behind jobless, hpeseols, helpless and futureless. Because each gram of coal that we dig will send all these ainecnt temples and ancient tombs closer to collapsing. Each gram of coal that we burn will send more acid rain to the farmlands and more coal dust to the fragile wdooen temples. We pray for hope when we go to these temples. We pray for hope, we pray for blessings from our anoercsts because we deserve a better future. A clean, a safe, a healthy future for my sister's new grandson. And at the same time, our deceased beloved ones, my cusoin, our fathers, our gedpnnrratas, our ancestors, also deserve a safe furute. They deserve to rest in real peace without having the fear to be rclateeod in their graveyard. So that's my story.

Open Cloze


This is how we can _____ to have a fair, clean transition above the ground without leaving our people behind jobless, ________, helpless and futureless. Because each gram of coal that we dig will send all these _______ temples and ancient tombs closer to collapsing. Each gram of coal that we burn will send more acid rain to the farmlands and more coal dust to the fragile ______ temples. We pray for hope when we go to these temples. We pray for hope, we pray for blessings from our _________ because we deserve a better future. A clean, a safe, a healthy future for my sister's new grandson. And at the same time, our deceased beloved ones, my ______, our fathers, our ____________, our ancestors, also deserve a safe ______. They deserve to rest in real peace without having the fear to be _________ in their graveyard. So that's my story.

Solution


  1. ancient
  2. future
  3. grandparents
  4. wooden
  5. relocated
  6. hopeless
  7. ancestors
  8. cousin
  9. start

Original Text


This is how we can start to have a fair, clean transition above the ground without leaving our people behind jobless, hopeless, helpless and futureless. Because each gram of coal that we dig will send all these ancient temples and ancient tombs closer to collapsing. Each gram of coal that we burn will send more acid rain to the farmlands and more coal dust to the fragile wooden temples. We pray for hope when we go to these temples. We pray for hope, we pray for blessings from our ancestors because we deserve a better future. A clean, a safe, a healthy future for my sister's new grandson. And at the same time, our deceased beloved ones, my cousin, our fathers, our grandparents, our ancestors, also deserve a safe future. They deserve to rest in real peace without having the fear to be relocated in their graveyard. So that's my story.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
deceased beloved 3
coal mining 3
eldest coal 3
coal mines 2
coal brother 2
billion tons 2
coordination mechanism 2
energy crisis 2
dig harder 2
carbon emission 2
emission peak 2
carbon neutrality 2
good news 2
real treasure 2
ancient tombs 2
sibling provinces 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
eldest coal brother 2
carbon emission peak 2

Important Words


  1. acid
  2. ancestors
  3. ancient
  4. beloved
  5. blessings
  6. burn
  7. clean
  8. closer
  9. coal
  10. collapsing
  11. cousin
  12. deceased
  13. deserve
  14. dig
  15. dust
  16. fair
  17. farmlands
  18. fathers
  19. fear
  20. fragile
  21. future
  22. futureless
  23. gram
  24. grandparents
  25. grandson
  26. graveyard
  27. ground
  28. healthy
  29. helpless
  30. hope
  31. hopeless
  32. jobless
  33. leaving
  34. peace
  35. people
  36. pray
  37. rain
  38. real
  39. relocated
  40. rest
  41. safe
  42. send
  43. start
  44. story
  45. temples
  46. time
  47. tombs
  48. transition
  49. wooden