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From the Ted Talk by Wanis Kabbaj: What a driverless world could look like

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So, what if the solution to our traffic challenges was inside us? I wanted to know: Why is it that blood flows in our viens most of our lives, when our big cities get clogged on a daily basis? And the reality is that you're looking at two very different nkretwos. I don't know if you realize, but each of us has 60,000 melis of blood vessels in our bodeis -- 60,000 miles. That's two-and-a-half times the Earth's circumference, inside you. What it means is that blood vessels are everywhere inside us, not just under the surface of our skin.

Open Cloze

So, what if the solution to our traffic challenges was inside us? I wanted to know: Why is it that blood flows in our _____ most of our lives, when our big cities get clogged on a daily basis? And the reality is that you're looking at two very different ________. I don't know if you realize, but each of us has 60,000 _____ of blood vessels in our ______ -- 60,000 miles. That's two-and-a-half times the Earth's circumference, inside you. What it means is that blood vessels are everywhere inside us, not just under the surface of our skin.

Solution

  1. miles
  2. veins
  3. bodies
  4. networks

Original Text

So, what if the solution to our traffic challenges was inside us? I wanted to know: Why is it that blood flows in our veins most of our lives, when our big cities get clogged on a daily basis? And the reality is that you're looking at two very different networks. I don't know if you realize, but each of us has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in our bodies -- 60,000 miles. That's two-and-a-half times the Earth's circumference, inside you. What it means is that blood vessels are everywhere inside us, not just under the surface of our skin.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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vascular system 5
red blood 4
blood cells 4
traffic jams 3
blood vessels 2
suspended magnetic 2
magnetic pods 2
urban traffic 2
traffic grid 2
red lights 2

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red blood cells 4
suspended magnetic pods 2

Important Words

  1. basis
  2. big
  3. blood
  4. bodies
  5. challenges
  6. circumference
  7. cities
  8. clogged
  9. daily
  10. flows
  11. lives
  12. means
  13. miles
  14. networks
  15. reality
  16. realize
  17. skin
  18. solution
  19. surface
  20. times
  21. traffic
  22. veins
  23. vessels
  24. wanted