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From the Ted Talk by Stefan Al: What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees?

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We may think of nature as being unconnected to our urban spaces, but trees have always been an essential part of successful ciites. Trees act like a natural sponge, absorbing strom water runoff before releasing it back into the atmosphere. The webs of their rotos ptroect against mudslides while allowing soil to retain water and filter out toxins. Roots help prevent floods, while reducing the need for storm drains and water treatment plants. Their porous leaves pufiry the air by tapinrpg carbon and other pollutants, making them eetssianl in the fhgit against climate change.

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We may think of nature as being unconnected to our urban spaces, but trees have always been an essential part of successful ______. Trees act like a natural sponge, absorbing _____ water runoff before releasing it back into the atmosphere. The webs of their _____ _______ against mudslides while allowing soil to retain water and filter out toxins. Roots help prevent floods, while reducing the need for storm drains and water treatment plants. Their porous leaves ______ the air by ________ carbon and other pollutants, making them _________ in the _____ against climate change.

Solution

  1. purify
  2. roots
  3. fight
  4. essential
  5. trapping
  6. protect
  7. cities
  8. storm

Original Text

We may think of nature as being unconnected to our urban spaces, but trees have always been an essential part of successful cities. Trees act like a natural sponge, absorbing storm water runoff before releasing it back into the atmosphere. The webs of their roots protect against mudslides while allowing soil to retain water and filter out toxins. Roots help prevent floods, while reducing the need for storm drains and water treatment plants. Their porous leaves purify the air by trapping carbon and other pollutants, making them essential in the fight against climate change.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
irrigation system 4
modern day 2
city planners 2
urban trees 2

Important Words

  1. absorbing
  2. act
  3. air
  4. allowing
  5. atmosphere
  6. carbon
  7. change
  8. cities
  9. climate
  10. drains
  11. essential
  12. fight
  13. filter
  14. floods
  15. leaves
  16. making
  17. mudslides
  18. natural
  19. nature
  20. part
  21. plants
  22. pollutants
  23. porous
  24. prevent
  25. protect
  26. purify
  27. reducing
  28. releasing
  29. retain
  30. roots
  31. runoff
  32. soil
  33. spaces
  34. sponge
  35. storm
  36. successful
  37. toxins
  38. trapping
  39. treatment
  40. trees
  41. unconnected
  42. urban
  43. water
  44. webs