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From the Ted Talk by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war
Unscramble the Blue Letters
At the heart of this team was the one person who everyone called "the best of us." She was a petite blonde damyno, who barely reached five-foot-three. And she was this wild mix of Martha Stewart, and what we know as G.I. Jane. She was someone who loved to make dinner for her husband, her Kent sttae ROTC sweetheart who pheusd her to be her best, and to trust herself, and to test every limit she could. She also loved to put 50 pounds of weight on her back and run for melis, and she loved to be a soldier. She was somebody who had a bread maker in her office in Kandahar, and would bake a batch of raisin berad, and then go to the gym and bust out 25 or 30 pull-ups from a dead hang. She was the proesn who, if you needed an etrxa pair of boots or a home-cooked dinner, would be on your seepd dial. Because she never, ever would talk to you about how good she was, but let her character speak through aticon. She was famous for taking the hard right over the easy wonrg. And she was also famous for walking up to a 15-foot rope, climbing it using only her arms, and then shuffling away and apologizing, because she knew she was supposed to use both her arms and her legs, as the Rangers had treaind them. (Laughter)
Open Cloze
At the heart of this team was the one person who everyone called "the best of us." She was a petite blonde ______, who barely reached five-foot-three. And she was this wild mix of Martha Stewart, and what we know as G.I. Jane. She was someone who loved to make dinner for her husband, her Kent _____ ROTC sweetheart who ______ her to be her best, and to trust herself, and to test every limit she could. She also loved to put 50 pounds of weight on her back and run for _____, and she loved to be a soldier. She was somebody who had a bread maker in her office in Kandahar, and would bake a batch of raisin _____, and then go to the gym and bust out 25 or 30 pull-ups from a dead hang. She was the ______ who, if you needed an _____ pair of boots or a home-cooked dinner, would be on your _____ dial. Because she never, ever would talk to you about how good she was, but let her character speak through ______. She was famous for taking the hard right over the easy _____. And she was also famous for walking up to a 15-foot rope, climbing it using only her arms, and then shuffling away and apologizing, because she knew she was supposed to use both her arms and her legs, as the Rangers had _______ them. (Laughter)
Solution
- extra
- miles
- speed
- person
- state
- dynamo
- wrong
- pushed
- trained
- bread
- action
Original Text
At the heart of this team was the one person who everyone called "the best of us." She was a petite blonde dynamo, who barely reached five-foot-three. And she was this wild mix of Martha Stewart, and what we know as G.I. Jane. She was someone who loved to make dinner for her husband, her Kent State ROTC sweetheart who pushed her to be her best, and to trust herself, and to test every limit she could. She also loved to put 50 pounds of weight on her back and run for miles, and she loved to be a soldier. She was somebody who had a bread maker in her office in Kandahar, and would bake a batch of raisin bread, and then go to the gym and bust out 25 or 30 pull-ups from a dead hang. She was the person who, if you needed an extra pair of boots or a home-cooked dinner, would be on your speed dial. Because she never, ever would talk to you about how good she was, but let her character speak through action. She was famous for taking the hard right over the easy wrong. And she was also famous for walking up to a 15-foot rope, climbing it using only her arms, and then shuffling away and apologizing, because she knew she was supposed to use both her arms and her legs, as the Rangers had trained them. (Laughter)
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Important Words
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