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From the Ted Talk by Angela Wang: How China is changing the future of shopping

Unscramble the Blue Letters

This is my npehew, Yuan Yuan. He's five years old, super adorable. I asked him the other day, "What would you like for your birthday this year?" He said, "I want to have a one-way mirror Spider-Man mask." I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, so I said, "Wow, that's really cool, but how are you going to get it?" He told me, without a blnik of his eyes, "I'm going to tell my mom and make a wish before I go to bed. My mom will go to shkae her mobile phone. The next morning, the delivery uncle will give it to me when I wake up." I was about to tease him, but suddenly I realized he was smpliy telling me the truth, the truth of what shnpiopg looks like for this greoneatin.

Open Cloze

This is my ______, Yuan Yuan. He's five years old, super adorable. I asked him the other day, "What would you like for your birthday this year?" He said, "I want to have a one-way mirror Spider-Man mask." I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, so I said, "Wow, that's really cool, but how are you going to get it?" He told me, without a _____ of his eyes, "I'm going to tell my mom and make a wish before I go to bed. My mom will go to _____ her mobile phone. The next morning, the delivery uncle will give it to me when I wake up." I was about to tease him, but suddenly I realized he was ______ telling me the truth, the truth of what ________ looks like for this __________.

Solution

  1. shake
  2. shopping
  3. generation
  4. nephew
  5. simply
  6. blink

Original Text

This is my nephew, Yuan Yuan. He's five years old, super adorable. I asked him the other day, "What would you like for your birthday this year?" He said, "I want to have a one-way mirror Spider-Man mask." I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, so I said, "Wow, that's really cool, but how are you going to get it?" He told me, without a blink of his eyes, "I'm going to tell my mom and make a wish before I go to bed. My mom will go to shake her mobile phone. The next morning, the delivery uncle will give it to me when I wake up." I was about to tease him, but suddenly I realized he was simply telling me the truth, the truth of what shopping looks like for this generation.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. absolutely
  2. adorable
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