TedTest

From the Ted Talk by Andrew Blum: Discover the physical side of the internet

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

And I was particularly interested because I wanted to see one of these cables being built. See, you know, all the time ______ we experience these fleeting moments of connection, these sort of brief ___________, a tweet or a ________ post or an email, and it seemed like there was a physical corollary to that. It seemed like there was a moment when the continent was being plugged in, and I wanted to see that. And Simon was working on a new cable, WACS, the West Africa Cable System, that stretched from Lisbon down the west coast of ______, to Cote d'Ivoire, to _____, to Nigeria, to ________. And he said there was coming soon, depending on the _______, but he'd let me know when, and so with about four days notice, he said to go to this beach south of ______, and a little after 9, this guy will walk out of the _____. (________) And he'll be ________ a _____ nylon line, a lightweight line, called a messenger line, and that was the first link between sea and land, this link that would then be leveraged into this 9,000-mile path of light. Then a bulldozer began to pull the cable in from this specialized cable landing ship, and it was floated on these buoys until it was in the right place. Then you can see the _______ engineers looking on. And then, once it was in the right place, he got back in the water holding a big knife, and he cut each buoy off, and the buoy ______ up into the air, and the _____ dropped to the sea floor, and he did that all the way out to the ship, and when he got there, they gave him a glass of juice and a cookie, and then he jumped back in, and he swam back to shore, and then he lit a cigarette. (Laughter)

Solution

english
ghana
green
adjacencies
online
water
laughter
facebook
weather
carrying
cable
africa
cameroon
popped
lisbon

Original Text

And I was particularly interested because I wanted to see one of these cables being built. See, you know, all the time online we experience these fleeting moments of connection, these sort of brief adjacencies, a tweet or a Facebook post or an email, and it seemed like there was a physical corollary to that. It seemed like there was a moment when the continent was being plugged in, and I wanted to see that. And Simon was working on a new cable, WACS, the West Africa Cable System, that stretched from Lisbon down the west coast of Africa, to Cote d'Ivoire, to Ghana, to Nigeria, to Cameroon. And he said there was coming soon, depending on the weather, but he'd let me know when, and so with about four days notice, he said to go to this beach south of Lisbon, and a little after 9, this guy will walk out of the water. (Laughter) And he'll be carrying a green nylon line, a lightweight line, called a messenger line, and that was the first link between sea and land, this link that would then be leveraged into this 9,000-mile path of light. Then a bulldozer began to pull the cable in from this specialized cable landing ship, and it was floated on these buoys until it was in the right place. Then you can see the English engineers looking on. And then, once it was in the right place, he got back in the water holding a big knife, and he cut each buoy off, and the buoy popped up into the air, and the cable dropped to the sea floor, and he did that all the way out to the ship, and when he got there, they gave him a glass of juice and a cookie, and then he jumped back in, and he swam back to shore, and then he lit a cigarette. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation	frequency
physical process	4
physical world	2
black box	2
red light	2
real world	2
short list	2
landing station	2

Important Words

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