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From the Ted Talk by Pat Mitchell: Dangerous times call for dangerous women

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I became a risk-taker early in my life's journey. I had to, or have my life defined by the limitations for a girl growing up in the ruarl South, with no money, no cinnncooets, no influence. But what wasn't limited was my curiosity about the world beyond my small town, beyond the small minds of a still-segregated South, a world that I gmelipsd in the newsreels at the one movie tehaetr in town, and a world that got a lot closer to me when I met Miss shlirey Rountree, my eighth-grade English teacher.

Open Cloze

I became a risk-taker early in my life's journey. I had to, or have my life defined by the limitations for a girl growing up in the _____ South, with no money, no ___________, no influence. But what wasn't limited was my curiosity about the world beyond my small town, beyond the small minds of a still-segregated South, a world that I ________ in the newsreels at the one movie _______ in town, and a world that got a lot closer to me when I met Miss _______ Rountree, my eighth-grade English teacher.

Solution

  1. rural
  2. theater
  3. connections
  4. shirley
  5. glimpsed

Original Text

I became a risk-taker early in my life's journey. I had to, or have my life defined by the limitations for a girl growing up in the rural South, with no money, no connections, no influence. But what wasn't limited was my curiosity about the world beyond my small town, beyond the small minds of a still-segregated South, a world that I glimpsed in the newsreels at the one movie theater in town, and a world that got a lot closer to me when I met Miss Shirley Rountree, my eighth-grade English teacher.

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Important Words

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  6. english
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  29. world