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From the Ted Talk by Gonzalo Vilariño: How Argentina's blind soccer team became champions

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We staterd to train haredr, and the results were great; they asked for more. I came to udertsnand that they, too, wneoedrd why they couldn't do high-performance. When we felt ready, we knocked at CENARD's door. CENARD is the National Center for High-Performance Sports here in Argentina. It was hard to get them to hear what we had to say. But it was considerably more difficult to get the other athletes training there to consider us their equals. In fact, they would let us use the field only when no other teams were using it. And we were known as "the blind ones." Not everyone knew exactly what we were doing there.

Open Cloze

We _______ to train ______, and the results were great; they asked for more. I came to __________ that they, too, ________ why they couldn't do high-performance. When we felt ready, we knocked at CENARD's door. CENARD is the National Center for High-Performance Sports here in Argentina. It was hard to get them to hear what we had to say. But it was considerably more difficult to get the other athletes training there to consider us their equals. In fact, they would let us use the field only when no other teams were using it. And we were known as "the blind ones." Not everyone knew exactly what we were doing there.

Solution

  1. wondered
  2. understand
  3. started
  4. harder

Original Text

We started to train harder, and the results were great; they asked for more. I came to understand that they, too, wondered why they couldn't do high-performance. When we felt ready, we knocked at CENARD's door. CENARD is the National Center for High-Performance Sports here in Argentina. It was hard to get them to hear what we had to say. But it was considerably more difficult to get the other athletes training there to consider us their equals. In fact, they would let us use the field only when no other teams were using it. And we were known as "the blind ones." Not everyone knew exactly what we were doing there.

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Important Words

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  2. asked
  3. athletes
  4. blind
  5. cenard
  6. center
  7. considerably
  8. difficult
  9. door
  10. equals
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  13. field
  14. hard
  15. harder
  16. hear
  17. knew
  18. knocked
  19. national
  20. ready
  21. results
  22. sports
  23. started
  24. teams
  25. train
  26. training
  27. understand
  28. wondered