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From the Ted Talk by Joseph Lekuton: A parable for Kenya

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When everybody else was dprpiong out. My family moved; we're nomads. It was a boarding soohcl, I was seven — Every time it closed you had to travel to find them. 40-50 miles, it doesn't mteatr. You slept in the bush, but you kept going.

And I stayed. I don't know why, but I did. All of a sudden I passed the nitanoal examination, found myself in a very beautiful high school in Kenya. And I finished high school. And just walking, I found a man who gave me a full scholarship to the United States. My mother still lived in a cow-dung hut, none of my brerhtos were going to school, and this man told me, "Here, go."

Open Cloze


When everybody else was ________ out. My family moved; we're nomads. It was a boarding ______, I was seven — Every time it closed you had to travel to find them. 40-50 miles, it doesn't ______. You slept in the bush, but you kept going.

And I stayed. I don't know why, but I did. All of a sudden I passed the ________ examination, found myself in a very beautiful high school in Kenya. And I finished high school. And just walking, I found a man who gave me a full scholarship to the United States. My mother still lived in a cow-dung hut, none of my ________ were going to school, and this man told me, "Here, go."

Solution


  1. school
  2. dropping
  3. matter
  4. brothers
  5. national

Original Text


When everybody else was dropping out. My family moved; we're nomads. It was a boarding school, I was seven — Every time it closed you had to travel to find them. 40-50 miles, it doesn't matter. You slept in the bush, but you kept going.

And I stayed. I don't know why, but I did. All of a sudden I passed the national examination, found myself in a very beautiful high school in Kenya. And I finished high school. And just walking, I found a man who gave me a full scholarship to the United States. My mother still lived in a cow-dung hut, none of my brothers were going to school, and this man told me, "Here, go."

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Important Words


  1. beautiful
  2. boarding
  3. brothers
  4. bush
  5. closed
  6. dropping
  7. examination
  8. family
  9. find
  10. finished
  11. full
  12. gave
  13. high
  14. hut
  15. kenya
  16. lived
  17. man
  18. matter
  19. miles
  20. mother
  21. national
  22. nomads
  23. passed
  24. scholarship
  25. school
  26. slept
  27. states
  28. stayed
  29. sudden
  30. time
  31. told
  32. travel
  33. united
  34. walking