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

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And right now, the project is toinurg through China, actually with the srppout of China's central government. So the first goal is to craete local clean-air parks, and that works already quite well — 55, 75 percent more clean. And at the same time, we team up with the NGOs, with the governors, with the students, with the tech people, to say, "Hey, what do we need to do to make a whole city smog-free?" It's about the deram of celan air. We do workshops. New ideas pop up. These are smog-free bicycles which — I'm Dutch, yes? — I have this "bicycle DNA" inside of me somewhere. And so it scuks up polluted air, it cleans it and releases it, in the fight against the car, in the celebration of the bicycle.

Open Cloze

And right now, the project is _______ through China, actually with the _______ of China's central government. So the first goal is to ______ local clean-air parks, and that works already quite well — 55, 75 percent more clean. And at the same time, we team up with the NGOs, with the governors, with the students, with the tech people, to say, "Hey, what do we need to do to make a whole city smog-free?" It's about the _____ of _____ air. We do workshops. New ideas pop up. These are smog-free bicycles which — I'm Dutch, yes? — I have this "bicycle DNA" inside of me somewhere. And so it _____ up polluted air, it cleans it and releases it, in the fight against the car, in the celebration of the bicycle.

Solution

  1. dream
  2. create
  3. support
  4. sucks
  5. touring
  6. clean

Original Text

And right now, the project is touring through China, actually with the support of China's central government. So the first goal is to create local clean-air parks, and that works already quite well — 55, 75 percent more clean. And at the same time, we team up with the NGOs, with the governors, with the students, with the tech people, to say, "Hey, what do we need to do to make a whole city smog-free?" It's about the dream of clean air. We do workshops. New ideas pop up. These are smog-free bicycles which — I'm Dutch, yes? — I have this "bicycle DNA" inside of me somewhere. And so it sucks up polluted air, it cleans it and releases it, in the fight against the car, in the celebration of the bicycle.

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