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From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: What's the best country to live in?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


What’s the best country in the world to live in? Is it the one with the best food? The longest life expectancy? The best weather? For the past 70 years, most governments have reield heavily on a single number to answer that question. This nbmeur influences eeincolts, the stock market, and government policy. But it was never intended for its current purpose; and some would agure that the wlord is addicted to making it grow... forever. This number is cellad the Gross Domestic pruodct, or GDP, and it was invented by the economist Simon Kuznets in the 1930s, to try and gauge the size of an economy in a single, easy to understand number.

Open Cloze


What’s the best country in the world to live in? Is it the one with the best food? The longest life expectancy? The best weather? For the past 70 years, most governments have ______ heavily on a single number to answer that question. This ______ influences _________, the stock market, and government policy. But it was never intended for its current purpose; and some would _____ that the _____ is addicted to making it grow... forever. This number is ______ the Gross Domestic _______, or GDP, and it was invented by the economist Simon Kuznets in the 1930s, to try and gauge the size of an economy in a single, easy to understand number.

Solution


  1. called
  2. world
  3. relied
  4. number
  5. argue
  6. elections
  7. product

Original Text


What’s the best country in the world to live in? Is it the one with the best food? The longest life expectancy? The best weather? For the past 70 years, most governments have relied heavily on a single number to answer that question. This number influences elections, the stock market, and government policy. But it was never intended for its current purpose; and some would argue that the world is addicted to making it grow... forever. This number is called the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, and it was invented by the economist Simon Kuznets in the 1930s, to try and gauge the size of an economy in a single, easy to understand number.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
single number 5
gross domestic 2
country produces 2
million dollars 2
gross national 2
national happiness 2
development index 2
costa rica 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
gross national happiness 2

Important Words


  1. addicted
  2. answer
  3. argue
  4. called
  5. country
  6. current
  7. domestic
  8. easy
  9. economist
  10. economy
  11. elections
  12. expectancy
  13. food
  14. gauge
  15. gdp
  16. government
  17. governments
  18. gross
  19. grow
  20. heavily
  21. influences
  22. intended
  23. invented
  24. kuznets
  25. life
  26. live
  27. longest
  28. making
  29. market
  30. number
  31. policy
  32. product
  33. question
  34. relied
  35. simon
  36. single
  37. size
  38. stock
  39. understand
  40. weather
  41. world
  42. years