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From the Ted Talk by Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin
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My story starts in the northern Galapagos Islands, under 50 feet of wtear and a big school of sharks. I'd been scuba diving with a gorup of fidrnes for about a week, and it had been glorious: manta rays, whale sharks, penguins and, of course, hammerhead srahks. Today's dive was particularly tricky. The surge was terrible. You had to have your camera rig tight in and your arm out, because the surge kept throwing you into the rocks while you're scanning up for that beautiful phtgoroaph. It was going OK, until ... not OK. Something was terribly, terribly wrong. I pulled my hand back, and I had long, black sea urichn snipes all the way through my gloves, which meant all the way through my hand.
Open Cloze
My story starts in the northern Galapagos Islands, under 50 feet of _____ and a big school of sharks. I'd been scuba diving with a _____ of _______ for about a week, and it had been glorious: manta rays, whale sharks, penguins and, of course, hammerhead ______. Today's dive was particularly tricky. The surge was terrible. You had to have your camera rig tight in and your arm out, because the surge kept throwing you into the rocks while you're scanning up for that beautiful __________. It was going OK, until ... not OK. Something was terribly, terribly wrong. I pulled my hand back, and I had long, black sea ______ ______ all the way through my gloves, which meant all the way through my hand.
Solution
- urchin
- sharks
- group
- spines
- water
- photograph
- friends
Original Text
My story starts in the northern Galapagos Islands, under 50 feet of water and a big school of sharks. I'd been scuba diving with a group of friends for about a week, and it had been glorious: manta rays, whale sharks, penguins and, of course, hammerhead sharks. Today's dive was particularly tricky. The surge was terrible. You had to have your camera rig tight in and your arm out, because the surge kept throwing you into the rocks while you're scanning up for that beautiful photograph. It was going OK, until ... not OK. Something was terribly, terribly wrong. I pulled my hand back, and I had long, black sea urchin spines all the way through my gloves, which meant all the way through my hand.
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Important Words
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- hammerhead
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- surge
- terrible
- terribly
- throwing
- tight
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- urchin
- water
- week
- whale
- wrong