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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Rudd: Are China and the US doomed to conflict?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


People ask me, why is it that a kid gownirg up in rural Australia got interested in learning Chinese? Well, there are two reasons for that. Here's the first of them. That's Betsy the cow. Now, bsety the cow was one of a herd of dairy cattle that I grew up with on a farm in ruarl Australia. See those hands there? These are not bliut for farming. So very early on, I discovered that in fact, working in a farm was not designed for me, and China was a very safe remove from any ceraer in aialuratsn farm life.

Here's the second reoasn. That's my mom. Anyone here ever listen to what their mom told them to do? Everyone ever do what their mom told them to do? I rarely did, but what my mom said to me was, one day, she handed me a newspaper, a headline which said, here we have a huge change. And that change is China entering the United Nations. 1971, I had just turned 14 yraes of age, and she henadd me this headline. And she said, "Understand this, leran this, because it's going to affect your future."

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People ask me, why is it that a kid _______ up in rural Australia got interested in learning Chinese? Well, there are two reasons for that. Here's the first of them. That's Betsy the cow. Now, _____ the cow was one of a herd of dairy cattle that I grew up with on a farm in _____ Australia. See those hands there? These are not _____ for farming. So very early on, I discovered that in fact, working in a farm was not designed for me, and China was a very safe remove from any ______ in __________ farm life.

Here's the second ______. That's my mom. Anyone here ever listen to what their mom told them to do? Everyone ever do what their mom told them to do? I rarely did, but what my mom said to me was, one day, she handed me a newspaper, a headline which said, here we have a huge change. And that change is China entering the United Nations. 1971, I had just turned 14 _____ of age, and she ______ me this headline. And she said, "Understand this, _____ this, because it's going to affect your future."

Solution


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  4. career
  5. growing
  6. reason
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  8. australian
  9. betsy
  10. built

Original Text


People ask me, why is it that a kid growing up in rural Australia got interested in learning Chinese? Well, there are two reasons for that. Here's the first of them. That's Betsy the cow. Now, Betsy the cow was one of a herd of dairy cattle that I grew up with on a farm in rural Australia. See those hands there? These are not built for farming. So very early on, I discovered that in fact, working in a farm was not designed for me, and China was a very safe remove from any career in Australian farm life.

Here's the second reason. That's my mom. Anyone here ever listen to what their mom told them to do? Everyone ever do what their mom told them to do? I rarely did, but what my mom said to me was, one day, she handed me a newspaper, a headline which said, here we have a huge change. And that change is China entering the United Nations. 1971, I had just turned 14 years of age, and she handed me this headline. And she said, "Understand this, learn this, because it's going to affect your future."

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