Dialogue:
cleaning up theinternet
dialogue 1
Jingjing: Mark, do you recall that______ a couple months ago?
Mark: _______. Tell me a little more to _______.
Jingjing: Areport went out that there would be_______—like in Shanghai. So,people______ to supermarkets and_______ all the ______ and ______.
Mark: Ohyeah. Shelves were________. I remember seeing just a few corn______ and ________.
Jingjing: Doyou know how that rumor_______?
Mark: Ihaven't seen________ about it. Someone told me a ______ put outsomething that looked like ________, and got people _______.
Jingjing: Right; and that led to________.
Mark: Stock________ the next day. I went out in the morning and saw that things_________ pretty quickly. The ____ seemed to think it was ____.
Jingjing: Hopefully people ________ all the_______ they bought.
Mark: Wastedfood is_________. Anyway, that wasn't such________. Why do you_______ now?
Jingjing: Well, I've just been reading about government plans to_______.
Mark: That's ________. _______ is all over the place.
Jingjing: Right. We've got plenty of ________ to rely on. Butthat doesn't stop news from ________social media and________.
Mark: Is itreally that common, though? People don't_______—what they see onother people's _______ or ________.
Jingjing: Are you kidding? The _______ is just a small example. _______ with banks?
Mark: Youmean like_______? 1929 called. They want their_______ back.
Jingjing: I knowlots of ______ have been_______. You Americans have the ________. We have similar _______, plus a whole lot of _________.
Mark: Yeah,but in the short term, a nasty ________, and for a few people to_________.
Jingjing: _______ I'm talking about.
Mark: So,it's good to see the government ________.
Jingjing: 600 cases, _______, with more than 4000______.
Mark: Jeez,that's a larger number of_______.
dialogue 2
Jingjing: Mark,_______; what do you think about _______?
Mark: Idon't know much about it. You'd have to________.
Jingjing: What about_________, then?
Mark: The _______internet? Is there ________too?
Jingjing: I'm sure there are _________. Looking into all thosecases, officials found that people work _________for their _______online.
Mark: Areyou talking about_________?
Jingjing: Iam, and all kinds of ________.
Mark: Thatstuff's _______. Even ________ have too much of it. And they don't______ until they face competition and ________.
Jingjing: Sure, people are tired of_________ on their computers.
Mark: Andhaving personal _______.
Jingjing: Right. So, anyway, the point is that there are thousands of people_______, not just________.
Mark: Idon't think they______ for what they do on ________. It might seem_______ to someone who stopped and thought about it—but stuff like _______ isa way for smaller companies to ________.
Jingjing: Sure, but whenever_______ or _______ information________, officialsplan to _______.
Mark: Good,good, good.
Jingjing: Say, you'll never guess what these ________ are called.
Mark: So,you'll _______.
Jingjing: ________.
Mark: That's______.
Jingjing: Ithink so too.
new words andphrases
jog
debacle:
a tough nut tocrack:
a bank run:
FDIC:
lose
the dark internet:
shades of gray:
clickbait:
click-farming:
get a leg up:
throw the book at