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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

  1. finally
  2. future
  3. cities
  4. bloodsuckers
  5. 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

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mosquito bites 3
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green city 2
mosquitoes love 2
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Important Words

  1. bloodsuckers
  2. burden
  3. challenge
  4. changing
  5. cities
  6. climate
  7. convert
  8. creating
  9. disease
  10. diversity
  11. environments
  12. face
  13. finally
  14. future
  15. greater
  16. green
  17. hate
  18. impact
  19. kind
  20. leave
  21. loving
  22. mosquitoes
  23. move
  24. reduce
  25. relationships
  26. struggle
  27. thought
  28. understand