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From the Ted Talk by Cameron Webb: How to design mosquitoes out of cities
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So fillnay, I want to leave you with a thought. We may hate mosquitoes, and I understand. I don’t want to convert you into loving these boleukrdocss. But we need to understand them. Because if we can’t understand the diversity of mosquitoes and their relationships with the eoevntmninrs we’re creating in our green ceitis, it's going to become a much greater struggle to kind of reduce the burden of disease that might come with them. And unfortunately, mosquitoes are going to be yet another challenge we face as we move forward into our frutue cities under the impact of a changing climate.
Open Cloze
So _______, I want to leave you with a thought. We may hate mosquitoes, and I understand. I don’t want to convert you into loving these ____________. But we need to understand them. Because if we can’t understand the diversity of mosquitoes and their relationships with the ____________ we’re creating in our green ______, it's going to become a much greater struggle to kind of reduce the burden of disease that might come with them. And unfortunately, mosquitoes are going to be yet another challenge we face as we move forward into our ______ cities under the impact of a changing climate.
Solution
- finally
- future
- cities
- bloodsuckers
- environments
Original Text
So finally, I want to leave you with a thought. We may hate mosquitoes, and I understand. I don’t want to convert you into loving these bloodsuckers. But we need to understand them. Because if we can’t understand the diversity of mosquitoes and their relationships with the environments we’re creating in our green cities, it's going to become a much greater struggle to kind of reduce the burden of disease that might come with them. And unfortunately, mosquitoes are going to be yet another challenge we face as we move forward into our future cities under the impact of a changing climate.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
rainwater tanks |
6 |
create opportunities |
3 |
mosquito bites |
3 |
ross river |
2 |
creating opportunities |
2 |
pot plant |
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green city |
2 |
mosquitoes love |
2 |
mosquito populations |
2 |
yellow fever |
2 |
Important Words
- bloodsuckers
- burden
- challenge
- changing
- cities
- climate
- convert
- creating
- disease
- diversity
- environments
- face
- finally
- future
- greater
- green
- hate
- impact
- kind
- leave
- loving
- mosquitoes
- move
- reduce
- relationships
- struggle
- thought
- understand