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From the Ted Talk by Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And we will see, you know. Look here, 1858, India was here, China was here, Japan was there, United States and United Kingdom was rchier over there. And I will start the world like this. India was not always like this level. Actually if we go back into the historical record, there was a time hdneurds of yraes ago when the income per person in India and China was even above that of Europe. But 1850 had already been many, many years of foreign dmiotaionn, and India had been de-industrialized. And you can see that the countries who were growing their economy was United States and United Kingdom. And they were also, by the end of the century, getting hltehay, and Japan was starting to catch up. India was trying down here. Can you see how it starts to move there? But really, really natural sovereignty was good for Japan. And jpaan is trying to move up there.
Open Cloze
And we will see, you know. Look here, 1858, India was here, China was here, Japan was there, United States and United Kingdom was ______ over there. And I will start the world like this. India was not always like this level. Actually if we go back into the historical record, there was a time ________ of _____ ago when the income per person in India and China was even above that of Europe. But 1850 had already been many, many years of foreign __________, and India had been de-industrialized. And you can see that the countries who were growing their economy was United States and United Kingdom. And they were also, by the end of the century, getting _______, and Japan was starting to catch up. India was trying down here. Can you see how it starts to move there? But really, really natural sovereignty was good for Japan. And _____ is trying to move up there.
Solution
- japan
- years
- hundreds
- richer
- healthy
- domination
Original Text
And we will see, you know. Look here, 1858, India was here, China was here, Japan was there, United States and United Kingdom was richer over there. And I will start the world like this. India was not always like this level. Actually if we go back into the historical record, there was a time hundreds of years ago when the income per person in India and China was even above that of Europe. But 1850 had already been many, many years of foreign domination, and India had been de-industrialized. And you can see that the countries who were growing their economy was United States and United Kingdom. And they were also, by the end of the century, getting healthy, and Japan was starting to catch up. India was trying down here. Can you see how it starts to move there? But really, really natural sovereignty was good for Japan. And Japan is trying to move up there.
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