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From the Ted Talk by Daan Roosegaarde: A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So this ... this is the stuff we are capturing. This is bjiineg smog. This is in our lungs right now. If you live next to a highway, it's the same as 17 cgtetraies per day. Are we insane? When did we say yes to that? And we had buckets of this disgusting meaartil in our studio, and on a Monday morning, we were dcisisnsug, we were like, "Shit, what should we do with it? Should we throw it away?" Like, "Help!" And then we realized: no, no, no, no, no — waste should not exist. Waste for the one should be food for the other. So, here, maybe show it around. Do not put this in your coffee.

Open Cloze

So this ... this is the stuff we are capturing. This is _______ smog. This is in our lungs right now. If you live next to a highway, it's the same as 17 __________ per day. Are we insane? When did we say yes to that? And we had buckets of this disgusting ________ in our studio, and on a Monday morning, we were __________, we were like, "Shit, what should we do with it? Should we throw it away?" Like, "Help!" And then we realized: no, no, no, no, no — waste should not exist. Waste for the one should be food for the other. So, here, maybe show it around. Do not put this in your coffee.

Solution

  1. beijing
  2. discussing
  3. cigarettes
  4. material

Original Text

So this ... this is the stuff we are capturing. This is Beijing smog. This is in our lungs right now. If you live next to a highway, it's the same as 17 cigarettes per day. Are we insane? When did we say yes to that? And we had buckets of this disgusting material in our studio, and on a Monday morning, we were discussing, we were like, "Shit, what should we do with it? Should we throw it away?" Like, "Help!" And then we realized: no, no, no, no, no — waste should not exist. Waste for the one should be food for the other. So, here, maybe show it around. Do not put this in your coffee.

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Important Words

  1. beijing
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