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From the Ted Talk by Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Hi. So I'd like to talk a little bit about the people who make the things we use every day: our soehs, our handbags, our computers and cell phones. Now, this is a conversation that often calls up a lot of guilt. Imagine the tgnaeee farm girl who makes less than a dollar an hour stitching your rnuning shoes, or the young Chinese man who jumps off a rootofp after working overtime assembling your iPad. We, the beneficiaries of globalization, seem to exploit these victims with every purchase we make, and the injustice feels embedded in the products themselves. After all, what's wrong with a wlrod in which a worker on an iPhone assembly line can't even aroffd to buy one? It's taken for granted that Chinese fiocartes are oppressive, and that it's our desire for cheap gdoos that makes them so.

Open Cloze


Hi. So I'd like to talk a little bit about the people who make the things we use every day: our _____, our handbags, our computers and cell phones. Now, this is a conversation that often calls up a lot of guilt. Imagine the _______ farm girl who makes less than a dollar an hour stitching your _______ shoes, or the young Chinese man who jumps off a _______ after working overtime assembling your iPad. We, the beneficiaries of globalization, seem to exploit these victims with every purchase we make, and the injustice feels embedded in the products themselves. After all, what's wrong with a _____ in which a worker on an iPhone assembly line can't even ______ to buy one? It's taken for granted that Chinese _________ are oppressive, and that it's our desire for cheap _____ that makes them so.

Solution


  1. rooftop
  2. world
  3. afford
  4. goods
  5. shoes
  6. running
  7. factories
  8. teenage

Original Text


Hi. So I'd like to talk a little bit about the people who make the things we use every day: our shoes, our handbags, our computers and cell phones. Now, this is a conversation that often calls up a lot of guilt. Imagine the teenage farm girl who makes less than a dollar an hour stitching your running shoes, or the young Chinese man who jumps off a rooftop after working overtime assembling your iPad. We, the beneficiaries of globalization, seem to exploit these victims with every purchase we make, and the injustice feels embedded in the products themselves. After all, what's wrong with a world in which a worker on an iPhone assembly line can't even afford to buy one? It's taken for granted that Chinese factories are oppressive, and that it's our desire for cheap goods that makes them so.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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karl marx 2
min gave 2
signature handbags 2
american classic 2
young women 2


Important Words


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  3. assembly
  4. beneficiaries
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  11. computers
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  21. globalization
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  25. handbags
  26. hour
  27. imagine
  28. injustice
  29. ipad
  30. iphone
  31. jumps
  32. line
  33. lot
  34. man
  35. oppressive
  36. overtime
  37. people
  38. phones
  39. products
  40. purchase
  41. rooftop
  42. running
  43. shoes
  44. stitching
  45. talk
  46. teenage
  47. victims
  48. worker
  49. working
  50. world
  51. wrong
  52. young