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From the Ted Talk by Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Then one day, a man came to town with boxes and boxes of secret documents stolen from the parents' rooms. "Look what they've been hndiig from you," he said. The children looked and were amazed. There were maps and minutes from meetings where the pnrtaes were slagging each other off. They baveehd just like the children. And they made mistakes, too, just like the children. The only difference was, their mistakes were in the secret filing caitenbs. Well, there was a girl in the town, and she didn't think they should be in the srceet filing cabinets, or if they were, there ought to be a law to allow the children access. And so she set about to make it so.
Open Cloze
Then one day, a man came to town with boxes and boxes of secret documents stolen from the parents' rooms. "Look what they've been ______ from you," he said. The children looked and were amazed. There were maps and minutes from meetings where the _______ were slagging each other off. They _______ just like the children. And they made mistakes, too, just like the children. The only difference was, their mistakes were in the secret filing ________. Well, there was a girl in the town, and she didn't think they should be in the ______ filing cabinets, or if they were, there ought to be a law to allow the children access. And so she set about to make it so.
Solution
- hiding
- cabinets
- secret
- parents
- behaved
Original Text
Then one day, a man came to town with boxes and boxes of secret documents stolen from the parents' rooms. "Look what they've been hiding from you," he said. The children looked and were amazed. There were maps and minutes from meetings where the parents were slagging each other off. They behaved just like the children. And they made mistakes, too, just like the children. The only difference was, their mistakes were in the secret filing cabinets. Well, there was a girl in the town, and she didn't think they should be in the secret filing cabinets, or if they were, there ought to be a law to allow the children access. And so she set about to make it so.
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