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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Surace: Eco-friendly drywall

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We must change everything. Look around the room: chairs, wood, everything around us has to change or we're not going to lick this problem. Don't listen to the ppeole who say you can't do this, because anyone can. And these job losses, we can fix them with green-collar jobs. We've got four pltans. We're building this sutff around the country. We're going as fast as we can. Two and a half million cars worth of gypsum, you know, CO2 generated. Right? So what will you do? I'll tell you what I did and why I did it. And I know my time's up.

Open Cloze

We must change everything. Look around the room: chairs, wood, everything around us has to change or we're not going to lick this problem. Don't listen to the ______ who say you can't do this, because anyone can. And these job losses, we can fix them with green-collar jobs. We've got four ______. We're building this _____ around the country. We're going as fast as we can. Two and a half million cars worth of gypsum, you know, CO2 generated. Right? So what will you do? I'll tell you what I did and why I did it. And I know my time's up.

Solution

  1. plants
  2. stuff
  3. people

Original Text

We must change everything. Look around the room: chairs, wood, everything around us has to change or we're not going to lick this problem. Don't listen to the people who say you can't do this, because anyone can. And these job losses, we can fix them with green-collar jobs. We've got four plants. We're building this stuff around the country. We're going as fast as we can. Two and a half million cars worth of gypsum, you know, CO2 generated. Right? So what will you do? I'll tell you what I did and why I did it. And I know my time's up.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. building
  2. cars
  3. chairs
  4. change
  5. country
  6. fast
  7. fix
  8. generated
  9. gypsum
  10. job
  11. jobs
  12. lick
  13. listen
  14. losses
  15. million
  16. people
  17. plants
  18. problem
  19. stuff
  20. wood
  21. worth