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From the Ted Talk by A.J. Jacobs: The evolution of the coffee cup lid

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This is one of those objects where you just don't notice it until it dribbles on your lap. So I think the ceoffe cup lid will just ctnuonie to evolve, and you're going to see a move away from single-use plastic lids to lids that are a little more snlstuaaibe. We're not going to stop moving. We're not going to stop drinking coffee. And I think that's what these coffee lid engineers are trying to do, is to make it so that the experience of taking it on the road is as good as stintig in a restaurant, drinking from a ceramic cup. Because, you know, coffee is serious business.

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This is one of those objects where you just don't notice it until it dribbles on your lap. So I think the ______ cup lid will just ________ to evolve, and you're going to see a move away from single-use plastic lids to lids that are a little more ___________. We're not going to stop moving. We're not going to stop drinking coffee. And I think that's what these coffee lid engineers are trying to do, is to make it so that the experience of taking it on the road is as good as _______ in a restaurant, drinking from a ceramic cup. Because, you know, coffee is serious business.

Solution

  1. coffee
  2. continue
  3. sustainable
  4. sitting

Original Text

This is one of those objects where you just don't notice it until it dribbles on your lap. So I think the coffee cup lid will just continue to evolve, and you're going to see a move away from single-use plastic lids to lids that are a little more sustainable. We're not going to stop moving. We're not going to stop drinking coffee. And I think that's what these coffee lid engineers are trying to do, is to make it so that the experience of taking it on the road is as good as sitting in a restaurant, drinking from a ceramic cup. Because, you know, coffee is serious business.

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Important Words

  1. business
  2. ceramic
  3. coffee
  4. continue
  5. cup
  6. dribbles
  7. drinking
  8. engineers
  9. evolve
  10. experience
  11. good
  12. lap
  13. lid
  14. lids
  15. move
  16. moving
  17. notice
  18. objects
  19. plastic
  20. restaurant
  21. road
  22. sitting
  23. stop
  24. sustainable