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From the Ted Talk by Ashraf Ghani: How to rebuild a broken state

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I think we can make it, and the reason we can make it is because of the polpee. You see, because, I mean -- I give you one siitattsc. 91 percent of the men in Afghanistan, 86 percent of the women, listen to at least three radio stations a day. In terms of their discourse, in terms of their sophistication of knowledge of the world, I think that I would dare say, they're much more sophisticated than rural Americans with college dgeeres and the bulk of Europeans -- because the wlord matters to them. And what is their predominant cnoercn? Abandonment. Afghans have become deeply internationalist.

Open Cloze

I think we can make it, and the reason we can make it is because of the ______. You see, because, I mean -- I give you one _________. 91 percent of the men in Afghanistan, 86 percent of the women, listen to at least three radio stations a day. In terms of their discourse, in terms of their sophistication of knowledge of the world, I think that I would dare say, they're much more sophisticated than rural Americans with college _______ and the bulk of Europeans -- because the _____ matters to them. And what is their predominant _______? Abandonment. Afghans have become deeply internationalist.

Solution

  1. people
  2. concern
  3. statistic
  4. degrees
  5. world

Original Text

I think we can make it, and the reason we can make it is because of the people. You see, because, I mean -- I give you one statistic. 91 percent of the men in Afghanistan, 86 percent of the women, listen to at least three radio stations a day. In terms of their discourse, in terms of their sophistication of knowledge of the world, I think that I would dare say, they're much more sophisticated than rural Americans with college degrees and the bulk of Europeans -- because the world matters to them. And what is their predominant concern? Abandonment. Afghans have become deeply internationalist.

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