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From the Ted Talk by Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers

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The first time I met Min, she had just turned 18 and quit her first job on the assembly line of an electronics factory. Over the next two years, I watched as she secithwd jobs five times, elenvluaty landing a lvtriauce post in the purchasing department of a hardware factory. Later, she mirared a fellow migrant worker, moved with him to his village, gave birth to two dtruagehs, and saved enough money to buy a secondhand Buick for herself and an apartment for her parents. She recently returned to Dongguan on her own to take a job in a ftocary that makes cicrsonotutn cnreas, temporarily leaving her husband and children back in the village.

Open Cloze

The first time I met Min, she had just turned 18 and quit her first job on the assembly line of an electronics factory. Over the next two years, I watched as she ________ jobs five times, __________ landing a _________ post in the purchasing department of a hardware factory. Later, she _______ a fellow migrant worker, moved with him to his village, gave birth to two _________, and saved enough money to buy a secondhand Buick for herself and an apartment for her parents. She recently returned to Dongguan on her own to take a job in a _______ that makes ____________ ______, temporarily leaving her husband and children back in the village.

Solution

  1. factory
  2. cranes
  3. daughters
  4. eventually
  5. construction
  6. switched
  7. married
  8. lucrative

Original Text

The first time I met Min, she had just turned 18 and quit her first job on the assembly line of an electronics factory. Over the next two years, I watched as she switched jobs five times, eventually landing a lucrative post in the purchasing department of a hardware factory. Later, she married a fellow migrant worker, moved with him to his village, gave birth to two daughters, and saved enough money to buy a secondhand Buick for herself and an apartment for her parents. She recently returned to Dongguan on her own to take a job in a factory that makes construction cranes, temporarily leaving her husband and children back in the village.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
assembly line 4
karl marx 2
min gave 2
signature handbags 2
american classic 2
young women 2

Important Words

  1. apartment
  2. assembly
  3. birth
  4. buick
  5. buy
  6. children
  7. construction
  8. cranes
  9. daughters
  10. department
  11. dongguan
  12. electronics
  13. eventually
  14. factory
  15. fellow
  16. gave
  17. hardware
  18. husband
  19. job
  20. jobs
  21. landing
  22. leaving
  23. line
  24. lucrative
  25. married
  26. met
  27. migrant
  28. min
  29. money
  30. moved
  31. parents
  32. post
  33. purchasing
  34. quit
  35. returned
  36. saved
  37. secondhand
  38. switched
  39. temporarily
  40. time
  41. times
  42. turned
  43. village
  44. watched
  45. worker
  46. years