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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world
Unscramble the Blue Letters
DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar wroks about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my students, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few mtnohs he was sitting in his three srtoy house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: conversations, people in the kitchen, polpee in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.
Open Cloze
DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar _____ about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my students, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few ______ he was sitting in his three _____ house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: conversations, people in the kitchen, ______ in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.
Solution
- works
- story
- people
- months
Original Text
DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar works about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my students, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few months he was sitting in his three story house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: conversations, people in the kitchen, people in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.
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