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From the Ted Talk by Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So there they are. And the tragedy is that the two billion over here that is struggling for food and shoes, they are still almost as poor as they were 50 yeras ago. The new thing is that we have the biggest pile of billions, the three bliilnos here, which are also becoming emerging economies, because they are quite haehlty, relatively well-educated, and they already also have two to three children per woman, as those [richer also] have. And their aspiration now is, of course, to buy a bicycle, and then later on they would like to have a motorbike also. But this is the world we have today, no longer any gap. But the distance from the poorest here, the very poorest, to the very richest over here is wider than ever. But there is a continuous world from waiknlg, biking, driving, flying — there are people on all lelves, and most ppeloe tend to be somewhere in the middle. This is the new world we have today in 2010.
Open Cloze
So there they are. And the tragedy is that the two billion over here that is struggling for food and shoes, they are still almost as poor as they were 50 _____ ago. The new thing is that we have the biggest pile of billions, the three ________ here, which are also becoming emerging economies, because they are quite _______, relatively well-educated, and they already also have two to three children per woman, as those [richer also] have. And their aspiration now is, of course, to buy a bicycle, and then later on they would like to have a motorbike also. But this is the world we have today, no longer any gap. But the distance from the poorest here, the very poorest, to the very richest over here is wider than ever. But there is a continuous world from _______, biking, driving, flying — there are people on all ______, and most ______ tend to be somewhere in the middle. This is the new world we have today in 2010.
Solution
- years
- levels
- people
- healthy
- billions
- walking
Original Text
So there they are. And the tragedy is that the two billion over here that is struggling for food and shoes, they are still almost as poor as they were 50 years ago. The new thing is that we have the biggest pile of billions, the three billions here, which are also becoming emerging economies, because they are quite healthy, relatively well-educated, and they already also have two to three children per woman, as those [richer also] have. And their aspiration now is, of course, to buy a bicycle, and then later on they would like to have a motorbike also. But this is the world we have today, no longer any gap. But the distance from the poorest here, the very poorest, to the very richest over here is wider than ever. But there is a continuous world from walking, biking, driving, flying — there are people on all levels, and most people tend to be somewhere in the middle. This is the new world we have today in 2010.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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