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