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From the Ted Talk by Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
This is my great uncle, my father's father's younger brother. His name was Joe McKenna. He was a young husband and a semi-pro basketball player and a fireman in New York City. Family history says he loved being a feiarmn, and so in 1938, on one of his days off, he elected to hang out at the fsuihoree. To make himself useful that day, he started polishing all the brass, the riignlas on the fire truck, the fittings on the walls, and one of the fire hose nozzles, a giant, heavy piece of metal, tpelpod off a sehlf and hit him. A few days later, his shoulder started to hurt. Two days after that, he spiked a fever. The fveer climbed and ceilmbd. His wife was taking care of him, but nothing she did made a difference, and when they got the local doctor in, nothing he did mattered either.
Open Cloze
This is my great uncle, my father's father's younger brother. His name was Joe McKenna. He was a young husband and a semi-pro basketball player and a fireman in New York City. Family history says he loved being a _______, and so in 1938, on one of his days off, he elected to hang out at the _________. To make himself useful that day, he started polishing all the brass, the ________ on the fire truck, the fittings on the walls, and one of the fire hose nozzles, a giant, heavy piece of metal, _______ off a _____ and hit him. A few days later, his shoulder started to hurt. Two days after that, he spiked a fever. The _____ climbed and _______. His wife was taking care of him, but nothing she did made a difference, and when they got the local doctor in, nothing he did mattered either.
Solution
- toppled
- climbed
- shelf
- railings
- fever
- fireman
- firehouse
Original Text
This is my great uncle, my father's father's younger brother. His name was Joe McKenna. He was a young husband and a semi-pro basketball player and a fireman in New York City. Family history says he loved being a fireman, and so in 1938, on one of his days off, he elected to hang out at the firehouse. To make himself useful that day, he started polishing all the brass, the railings on the fire truck, the fittings on the walls, and one of the fire hose nozzles, a giant, heavy piece of metal, toppled off a shelf and hit him. A few days later, his shoulder started to hurt. Two days after that, he spiked a fever. The fever climbed and climbed. His wife was taking care of him, but nothing she did made a difference, and when they got the local doctor in, nothing he did mattered either.
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