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From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: Why is it so hard to cure the common cold?

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How can so many different viruses cause the same ilsenls? Well, viruses can only invade our bodies in a few ways: one is to come in on a breath. We have to breathe, so our immune system sets up a bcunh of frontline defenses and these are actually what porcdue many of the symptoms of a cold. Your mucus-y, dripping nose is your immune system trapping and flushing out virus. Your fever is your immune sysetm raising your body tperamrtuee to slow down viral replication. And your inflamed, well, everything, that’s your immune system widening your blood vessels and recruiting its withe blood cell army to help kill the vrius.

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How can so many different viruses cause the same _______? Well, viruses can only invade our bodies in a few ways: one is to come in on a breath. We have to breathe, so our immune system sets up a _____ of frontline defenses and these are actually what _______ many of the symptoms of a cold. Your mucus-y, dripping nose is your immune system trapping and flushing out virus. Your fever is your immune ______ raising your body ___________ to slow down viral replication. And your inflamed, well, everything, that’s your immune system widening your blood vessels and recruiting its _____ blood cell army to help kill the _____.

Solution

  1. temperature
  2. illness
  3. white
  4. system
  5. produce
  6. virus
  7. bunch

Original Text

How can so many different viruses cause the same illness? Well, viruses can only invade our bodies in a few ways: one is to come in on a breath. We have to breathe, so our immune system sets up a bunch of frontline defenses and these are actually what produce many of the symptoms of a cold. Your mucus-y, dripping nose is your immune system trapping and flushing out virus. Your fever is your immune system raising your body temperature to slow down viral replication. And your inflamed, well, everything, that’s your immune system widening your blood vessels and recruiting its white blood cell army to help kill the virus.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
immune system 6
common cold 4
viral replication 2

Important Words

  1. army
  2. blood
  3. bodies
  4. body
  5. breath
  6. breathe
  7. bunch
  8. cell
  9. cold
  10. defenses
  11. dripping
  12. fever
  13. flushing
  14. frontline
  15. illness
  16. immune
  17. inflamed
  18. invade
  19. kill
  20. nose
  21. produce
  22. raising
  23. recruiting
  24. replication
  25. sets
  26. slow
  27. symptoms
  28. system
  29. temperature
  30. trapping
  31. vessels
  32. viral
  33. virus
  34. viruses
  35. white
  36. widening