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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Foley: The other inconvenient truth

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is part of the Amazon Basin, a place caelld rôodnina in the south-center part of the Brazilian Amazon. If you look really carefully in the upper right-hand corner, you're going to see a thin white line, which is a road that was built in the 1970s. If we come back to the same place in 2001, what we're going to find is that these roads spurt off more roads, and more roads after that, at the end of which is a small clearing in the rneiaosfrt where there are going to be a few cows. These cows are used for beef. We're going to eat these cows. And these cows are eaten biclalsay in sotuh America, in Brazil and agnintrea. They're not being sheippd up here. But this kind of fishbone pattern of deforestation is something we notice a lot of around the tropics, especially in this part of the world.

Open Cloze


This is part of the Amazon Basin, a place ______ ________ in the south-center part of the Brazilian Amazon. If you look really carefully in the upper right-hand corner, you're going to see a thin white line, which is a road that was built in the 1970s. If we come back to the same place in 2001, what we're going to find is that these roads spurt off more roads, and more roads after that, at the end of which is a small clearing in the __________ where there are going to be a few cows. These cows are used for beef. We're going to eat these cows. And these cows are eaten _________ in _____ America, in Brazil and _________. They're not being _______ up here. But this kind of fishbone pattern of deforestation is something we notice a lot of around the tropics, especially in this part of the world.

Solution


  1. shipped
  2. called
  3. rainforest
  4. basically
  5. rondônia
  6. argentina
  7. south

Original Text


This is part of the Amazon Basin, a place called Rondônia in the south-center part of the Brazilian Amazon. If you look really carefully in the upper right-hand corner, you're going to see a thin white line, which is a road that was built in the 1970s. If we come back to the same place in 2001, what we're going to find is that these roads spurt off more roads, and more roads after that, at the end of which is a small clearing in the rainforest where there are going to be a few cows. These cows are used for beef. We're going to eat these cows. And these cows are eaten basically in South America, in Brazil and Argentina. They're not being shipped up here. But this kind of fishbone pattern of deforestation is something we notice a lot of around the tropics, especially in this part of the world.

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Important Words


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  30. rondônia
  31. shipped
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  39. world