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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
- table
- spleen
- bacterial
- support
- hearing
- hands
- snowed
- place
- 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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