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From the Ted Talk by Amy Purdy: Living beyond limits

Unscramble the Blue Letters

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a palce where it soewnd and I became a massage therapist. With this job all I needed were my hndas and my massage tlbae by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent and completely in control of my life. That is, until my life took a detour. I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later I was in the hospital on life soppurt with less than a two percent chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctros diagnosed me with beraacitl meningitis, a vaccine-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my selpen, my kidneys, the hiaerng in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee.

Open Cloze

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a _____ where it ______ and I became a massage therapist. With this job all I needed were my _____ and my massage _____ by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent and completely in control of my life. That is, until my life took a detour. I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later I was in the hospital on life _______ with less than a two percent chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the _______ diagnosed me with _________ meningitis, a vaccine-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my ______, my kidneys, the _______ in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee.

Solution

  1. table
  2. spleen
  3. bacterial
  4. support
  5. hearing
  6. hands
  7. snowed
  8. place
  9. doctors

Original Text

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed and I became a massage therapist. With this job all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent and completely in control of my life. That is, until my life took a detour. I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later I was in the hospital on life support with less than a two percent chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis, a vaccine-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my spleen, my kidneys, the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee.

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