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From the Ted Talk by Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat
Unscramble the Blue Letters
MA: Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen. And none of this pin sftuf would have hpnaeped if it hadn't been for Saddam hseisun. I'll tell you what happened. I went to the United Nations as an ambassador, and it was after the Gulf War, and I was an instructed ambassador. And the cease-fire had been translated into a series of sanctions resolutions, and my irnusnittcos were to say pelefrcty terrible things about Saddam Hussein constantly, which he deserved — he had invaded another country. And so all of a sudden, a poem aepeaprd in the papers in Baghdad comparing me to many things, but among them an "unparalleled serpent." And so I happened to have a snake pin. So I wore it when we talked about Iraq. (Laughter) And when I went out to meet the press, they zeroed in, said, "Why are you wearing that snake pin?" I said, "Because Saddam Hussein compared me to an ulaalnleperd serpent." And then I tugohht, well this is fun. So I went out and I bought a lot of pins that would, in fact, reflect what I thought we were going to do on any given day. So that's how it all srettad.
Open Cloze
MA: Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen. And none of this pin _____ would have ________ if it hadn't been for Saddam _______. I'll tell you what happened. I went to the United Nations as an ambassador, and it was after the Gulf War, and I was an instructed ambassador. And the cease-fire had been translated into a series of sanctions resolutions, and my ____________ were to say _________ terrible things about Saddam Hussein constantly, which he deserved — he had invaded another country. And so all of a sudden, a poem ________ in the papers in Baghdad comparing me to many things, but among them an "unparalleled serpent." And so I happened to have a snake pin. So I wore it when we talked about Iraq. (Laughter) And when I went out to meet the press, they zeroed in, said, "Why are you wearing that snake pin?" I said, "Because Saddam Hussein compared me to an ____________ serpent." And then I _______, well this is fun. So I went out and I bought a lot of pins that would, in fact, reflect what I thought we were going to do on any given day. So that's how it all _______.
Solution
- perfectly
- appeared
- stuff
- happened
- unparalleled
- instructions
- thought
- started
- hussein
Original Text
MA: Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen. And none of this pin stuff would have happened if it hadn't been for Saddam Hussein. I'll tell you what happened. I went to the United Nations as an ambassador, and it was after the Gulf War, and I was an instructed ambassador. And the cease-fire had been translated into a series of sanctions resolutions, and my instructions were to say perfectly terrible things about Saddam Hussein constantly, which he deserved — he had invaded another country. And so all of a sudden, a poem appeared in the papers in Baghdad comparing me to many things, but among them an "unparalleled serpent." And so I happened to have a snake pin. So I wore it when we talked about Iraq. (Laughter) And when I went out to meet the press, they zeroed in, said, "Why are you wearing that snake pin?" I said, "Because Saddam Hussein compared me to an unparalleled serpent." And then I thought, well this is fun. So I went out and I bought a lot of pins that would, in fact, reflect what I thought we were going to do on any given day. So that's how it all started.
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