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From the Ted Talk by Kio Stark: Why you should talk to strangers

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Sometimes it goes further. Researchers have found that people often feel more comfortable being hsoent and open about their inner selves with stnargres than they do with their friends and their families — that they often feel more understood by strangers. This gets reported in the media with great lnamet. "Strangers communicate better than spouses!" It's a good headline, right? I think it entirely misses the point. The important thing about these studies is just how significant these interactions can be; how this special form of csneloses gives us something we need as much as we need our friends and our flmiaeis.

Open Cloze

Sometimes it goes further. Researchers have found that people often feel more comfortable being ______ and open about their inner selves with _________ than they do with their friends and their families — that they often feel more understood by strangers. This gets reported in the media with great ______. "Strangers communicate better than spouses!" It's a good headline, right? I think it entirely misses the point. The important thing about these studies is just how significant these interactions can be; how this special form of _________ gives us something we need as much as we need our friends and our ________.

Solution

  1. families
  2. strangers
  3. lament
  4. honest
  5. closeness

Original Text

Sometimes it goes further. Researchers have found that people often feel more comfortable being honest and open about their inner selves with strangers than they do with their friends and their families — that they often feel more understood by strangers. This gets reported in the media with great lament. "Strangers communicate better than spouses!" It's a good headline, right? I think it entirely misses the point. The important thing about these studies is just how significant these interactions can be; how this special form of closeness gives us something we need as much as we need our friends and our families.

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Important Words

  1. closeness
  2. comfortable
  3. communicate
  4. families
  5. feel
  6. form
  7. friends
  8. good
  9. great
  10. headline
  11. honest
  12. important
  13. interactions
  14. lament
  15. media
  16. misses
  17. open
  18. people
  19. point
  20. reported
  21. researchers
  22. significant
  23. special
  24. strangers
  25. studies
  26. understood