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From the Ted Talk by Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel

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Five hundred seventy-one miollin two hundred thirty thousand pounds of paper towels are used by Americans every year. If we could — correction, wrong figure — 13 biiolln used every year. If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one pepar towel per person per day, 571,230,000 pounds of paper not used. We can do that.
Now there are all kinds of paper towel dispensers. There's the tri-fold. People tliycpaly take two or three. There's the one that cuts it, that you have to tear off. People go one, two, three, four, tear. This much, right? There's the one that cuts itself. People go, one, two, three, four. Or there's the same thing, but recycled paper, you have to get five of those because they're not as abesbrnot, of course.

Open Cloze

Five hundred seventy-one _______ two hundred thirty thousand pounds of paper towels are used by Americans every year. If we could — correction, wrong figure — 13 _______ used every year. If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one _____ towel per person per day, 571,230,000 pounds of paper not used. We can do that.
Now there are all kinds of paper towel dispensers. There's the tri-fold. People _________ take two or three. There's the one that cuts it, that you have to tear off. People go one, two, three, four, tear. This much, right? There's the one that cuts itself. People go, one, two, three, four. Or there's the same thing, but recycled paper, you have to get five of those because they're not as _________, of course.

Solution

  1. million
  2. absorbent
  3. billion
  4. typically
  5. paper

Original Text

Five hundred seventy-one million two hundred thirty thousand pounds of paper towels are used by Americans every year. If we could — correction, wrong figure — 13 billion used every year. If we could reduce the usage of paper towels, one paper towel per person per day, 571,230,000 pounds of paper not used. We can do that.
Now there are all kinds of paper towel dispensers. There's the tri-fold. People typically take two or three. There's the one that cuts it, that you have to tear off. People go one, two, three, four, tear. This much, right? There's the one that cuts itself. People go, one, two, three, four. Or there's the same thing, but recycled paper, you have to get five of those because they're not as absorbent, of course.

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