full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Dambisa Moyo: Is China the new idol for emerging economies?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now I'm sure some of you in the room will be thnnikig, well, this is like cindeg to China, and this is a way, in other wodrs, for the West to take a back seat. But I put it to you that if the United States and European cruioetns want to remain globally influential, they may have to consider cooperating in the short term in order to compete, and by that, they might have to focus more avsirseggely on economic outcomes to help create the middle class and therefore be able to hold government accountable and create the democracies that we really want.
Open Cloze
Now I'm sure some of you in the room will be ________, well, this is like ______ to China, and this is a way, in other _____, for the West to take a back seat. But I put it to you that if the United States and European _________ want to remain globally influential, they may have to consider cooperating in the short term in order to compete, and by that, they might have to focus more ____________ on economic outcomes to help create the middle class and therefore be able to hold government accountable and create the democracies that we really want.
Solution
- aggressively
- thinking
- words
- ceding
- countries
Original Text
Now I'm sure some of you in the room will be thinking, well, this is like ceding to China, and this is a way, in other words, for the West to take a back seat. But I put it to you that if the United States and European countries want to remain globally influential, they may have to consider cooperating in the short term in order to compete, and by that, they might have to focus more aggressively on economic outcomes to help create the middle class and therefore be able to hold government accountable and create the democracies that we really want.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
united states |
8 |
private capitalism |
5 |
economic growth |
5 |
political rights |
4 |
emerging markets |
4 |
economic rights |
3 |
state capitalism |
3 |
living standards |
3 |
capita income |
3 |
equal rights |
3 |
liberal democracy |
2 |
western countries |
2 |
shortest period |
2 |
income equality |
2 |
middle class |
2 |
government accountable |
2 |
freedom house |
2 |
Important Words
- accountable
- aggressively
- ceding
- china
- class
- compete
- cooperating
- countries
- create
- democracies
- economic
- european
- focus
- globally
- government
- hold
- influential
- middle
- order
- outcomes
- put
- remain
- room
- seat
- short
- states
- term
- thinking
- united
- west
- words