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From the Ted Talk by Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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
- factory
- cranes
- daughters
- eventually
- construction
- switched
- married
- 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.
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