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From the Ted Talk by Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing

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I got drawn into the honeybee world completely by a fluke. I was 18 years old and bored, and I picked up a book in the library on bees and I spnet the night reading it. I had never thought about insects lviing in clepomx sectieios. It was like the best of science fiction come true. And even stranger, there were these pelope, these beekeepers, that loved their bees like they were family, and when I put down the book, I knew I had to see this for myself. So I went to work for a commercial beekeeper, a family that owned 2,000 hives of bees in New Mexico. And I was permanently hokoed.

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I got drawn into the honeybee world completely by a fluke. I was 18 years old and bored, and I picked up a book in the library on bees and I _____ the night reading it. I had never thought about insects ______ in _______ _________. It was like the best of science fiction come true. And even stranger, there were these ______, these beekeepers, that loved their bees like they were family, and when I put down the book, I knew I had to see this for myself. So I went to work for a commercial beekeeper, a family that owned 2,000 hives of bees in New Mexico. And I was permanently ______.

Solution

  1. complex
  2. societies
  3. people
  4. living
  5. hooked
  6. spent

Original Text

I got drawn into the honeybee world completely by a fluke. I was 18 years old and bored, and I picked up a book in the library on bees and I spent the night reading it. I had never thought about insects living in complex societies. It was like the best of science fiction come true. And even stranger, there were these people, these beekeepers, that loved their bees like they were family, and when I put down the book, I knew I had to see this for myself. So I went to work for a commercial beekeeper, a family that owned 2,000 hives of bees in New Mexico. And I was permanently hooked.

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