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From the Ted Talk by Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done

Unscramble the Blue Letters


CA: Maybe it needed someone who is turned on by numbers and gahrps rather than just the big, sad face to get engaged. I mean, you've used it in your letter this year, you used bisclaaly this argument to say that aid, contrary to the crrunet meme that aid is kind of worthless and broken, that actually it has been eifvtefce.

BG: Yeah, well people can take, there is some aid that was well-meaning and didn't go well. There's some venture capital investments that were well-meaning and didn't go well. You shouldn't just say, okay, because of that, because we don't have a perfect record, this is a bad endeavor. You should look at, what was your goal? How are you trying to uplift nutrition and svraviul and literacy so these countries can take care of themselves, and say wow, this is going well, and be smarter. We can spend aid smarter. It is not all a paenaca. We can do better than venrute capital, I think, including big hits like this.

Open Cloze


CA: Maybe it needed someone who is turned on by numbers and ______ rather than just the big, sad face to get engaged. I mean, you've used it in your letter this year, you used _________ this argument to say that aid, contrary to the _______ meme that aid is kind of worthless and broken, that actually it has been _________.

BG: Yeah, well people can take, there is some aid that was well-meaning and didn't go well. There's some venture capital investments that were well-meaning and didn't go well. You shouldn't just say, okay, because of that, because we don't have a perfect record, this is a bad endeavor. You should look at, what was your goal? How are you trying to uplift nutrition and ________ and literacy so these countries can take care of themselves, and say wow, this is going well, and be smarter. We can spend aid smarter. It is not all a _______. We can do better than _______ capital, I think, including big hits like this.

Solution


  1. basically
  2. survival
  3. graphs
  4. effective
  5. current
  6. venture
  7. panacea

Original Text


CA: Maybe it needed someone who is turned on by numbers and graphs rather than just the big, sad face to get engaged. I mean, you've used it in your letter this year, you used basically this argument to say that aid, contrary to the current meme that aid is kind of worthless and broken, that actually it has been effective.

BG: Yeah, well people can take, there is some aid that was well-meaning and didn't go well. There's some venture capital investments that were well-meaning and didn't go well. You shouldn't just say, okay, because of that, because we don't have a perfect record, this is a bad endeavor. You should look at, what was your goal? How are you trying to uplift nutrition and survival and literacy so these countries can take care of themselves, and say wow, this is going well, and be smarter. We can spend aid smarter. It is not all a panacea. We can do better than venture capital, I think, including big hits like this.

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Important Words


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