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From the Ted Talk by A.J. Jacobs: The life cycle of a cup of coffee

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The coffee is now so cosle you can smell it, but it needs more help for the final stretch. Each coffee company has a head buyer who carefully selects bnaes from all over the world. Logistics teams manage bean delivery routes, and brave baristas across the city serve this cntiaefeafd elixir to scores of hurried customers.

All in all, it takes hundreds of people to get coffee to its intended destination— and that’s not counting everyone mnniiniaatg the infrastructure that makes the journey possible. Many of these individuals work for low pay in dangerous conditions— and some aren’t paid at all. So while we might marvel at the global noewrtk behind this commodity, let’s make sure we don’t value the final pucrdot more than the pelpoe who make it.

Open Cloze


The coffee is now so _____ you can smell it, but it needs more help for the final stretch. Each coffee company has a head buyer who carefully selects _____ from all over the world. Logistics teams manage bean delivery routes, and brave baristas across the city serve this ___________ elixir to scores of hurried customers.

All in all, it takes hundreds of people to get coffee to its intended destination— and that’s not counting everyone ___________ the infrastructure that makes the journey possible. Many of these individuals work for low pay in dangerous conditions— and some aren’t paid at all. So while we might marvel at the global _______ behind this commodity, let’s make sure we don’t value the final _______ more than the ______ who make it.

Solution


  1. maintaining
  2. people
  3. caffeinated
  4. network
  5. close
  6. beans
  7. product

Original Text


The coffee is now so close you can smell it, but it needs more help for the final stretch. Each coffee company has a head buyer who carefully selects beans from all over the world. Logistics teams manage bean delivery routes, and brave baristas across the city serve this caffeinated elixir to scores of hurried customers.

All in all, it takes hundreds of people to get coffee to its intended destination— and that’s not counting everyone maintaining the infrastructure that makes the journey possible. Many of these individuals work for low pay in dangerous conditions— and some aren’t paid at all. So while we might marvel at the global network behind this commodity, let’s make sure we don’t value the final product more than the people who make it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
coffee beans 3


Important Words


  1. baristas
  2. bean
  3. beans
  4. brave
  5. buyer
  6. caffeinated
  7. carefully
  8. city
  9. close
  10. coffee
  11. commodity
  12. company
  13. counting
  14. customers
  15. dangerous
  16. delivery
  17. elixir
  18. final
  19. global
  20. head
  21. hundreds
  22. hurried
  23. individuals
  24. infrastructure
  25. intended
  26. journey
  27. logistics
  28. maintaining
  29. manage
  30. marvel
  31. network
  32. paid
  33. pay
  34. people
  35. product
  36. routes
  37. scores
  38. selects
  39. serve
  40. smell
  41. stretch
  42. takes
  43. teams
  44. work
  45. world